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Famous Mental Toughness Quotes
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness. I know I can pick up a playbook, like anybody can, and I can compete with anybody. — Stefon Diggs
If you’re running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness. — Robert Kraft
As a goalkeeper, you’ve got to have mental toughness, and that’s one thing I’m good at. — Jordan Pickford
Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn. — Gonzalo Higuain

I think it’s becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It’s a thing, but I don’t think people really understand the value of it. — Jaylen Brown
I don’t think any other college coach could have prepared me as well as Coach Bennett, just in terms of mental toughness, being able to grasp concepts and retain information. — Malcolm Brogdon
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15. — Ashton Eaton
I think my mental toughness, athleticism, and my physical prowess, I’d be successful if I decided to fight, no matter what. — Jordan Burroughs
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. — Tom Brady
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I’m looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. — Samantha Stosur
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. — Vince Lombardi
We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it’s not sometimes the physical part that you see; it’s the mental toughness and the ‘I’m going to stand in here, take this shot,’ and ‘I’m going to deliver it to my guy.’ — Dan Quinn
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, ‘Go kill.’ The truth is you’re talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness. — Howard E. Wasdin
The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same. — David Goggins
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. — William Baldwin
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It’s the mental toughness. — Edward Zwick
Self-belief, I think, is my biggest strength. The mental toughness comes into play whenever the chips are down. — Jasprit Bumrah
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. — John Bytheway
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player. — Suresh Raina
Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‘How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?’ — David Goggins
To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms. — Tom Brady
I’ve obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I’m better for it. — Gerrit Cole
CrossFit really helped me with mental toughness, which I really appreciate. It also gave me this network of people cheering me on, which is incredible. — Lauren Gibbs
The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness. — Brandon Webb
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. — Bobby Knight
You show me anybody that’s great in anything they do, I’ll show you somebody that’s persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity. — Sean McVay
I like to push my body to just extremity to get past the mental toughness barriers. So fighting at 145, that would be great. If Kenny Florian can do it, I can do it. — Tony Ferguson
For me, mental toughness is the ability to stay focussed in the present irrespective of what is happening at the match. — Dinesh Karthik
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. — Bill Russell