Bryant Gumbel Quotes

I am mentally strong.

The mental focus it takes to compete against the best players in the world is not easy to maintain. Developing mental toughness is a learned trait, and if you can't develop it in your pursuit of success, you likely won't last in any competitive line of work for more than a cup of coffee.

For the most part I consider myself a mentally strong player.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

Inner strength is very important.

Being mentally strong is something I've always been very good at and sometimes you just have to dig a bit deeper.

I know the position I'm in. Guys are going to try and take me out, but I got to be able to overcome it all and not let those type of things affect me.

I'm mentally strong.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.