Ashton Eaton Quotes

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

I think the game is so mental. If you sit around and you're mentally strong, you're ready.

Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.

The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.

In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.

You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

It's good when you're out there on a tennis court. There's nowhere to hide. It's all you, tactically, physically, mentally.

Some players aren't able to show their ability in Europe, but some players can - I think the most important quality in the successful players is that they are mentally strong.

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.

It's all a mind thing, just all mental. You have to know going into the game you have to play at a high level, as many minutes, stuff like that. It's just all mental. You get yourself mentally prepared for it and go out there and play.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

Golf is so mental. It gets my mind right before the game.