Mental Impact Quotes

We, as sportsmen, we're not used to just sitting at home and being at home all day. We want to go out. We want to play sport. We want to be in the gym, want to train; we want to hit balls, and when you're not physically able to do that, it's really tough. It starts playing on the mind a lot more.

People were saying on social media, 'He's going out too much' - I got judged. That was demoralising.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Sometimes it can feel like my bad days in Test cricket get amplified or singled out more than other players, while my good ones can fly under the radar. I'm not making excuses but over time this can get to you a little bit.

My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.

I know I'm not fat, but when people keep telling you that, you have to think about it.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.

A guy wrote a blog, way back when the Internet first started; the comments were so negative that it actually stopped me doing music for some time - about two, three years. It was after this one hip-hop project - Redfoo and Dr'Kroon. I wasn't used to it. I didn't like it. It lowered my self-esteem.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I'm truly scared and upset.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

When I came back from Vietnam in 1965, I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody could get…

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.

I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.