Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.
Rather than realizing immediate physiological gain, the challenge is more about reducing the mental attrition from the two days to maximize each event.
We have mentally tough players coming out of Villanova.
The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.
To be a supersub is mentally hard.
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.
The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
Never in my heart did I want to quit, but I did, at the end of 2012, start to wonder when I was getting fractures from running hardly at all; I started thinking, 'Am I asking too much of my body? Is it not going to do this for me anymore?'
Confidence is a huge thing in this league.
There are lots of mentally very tough players that I have played against and with.
If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.
The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.
