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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There’s got to be hard work and mental toughness. It’s not just one thing that gets you there it’s an accumulation of things

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you’ve got this British mother whose entire being rejects ‘coddling’ in case it makes you too soft. So there’s absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

The NBA is a culture shock for college kids, and even more so for kids from another country. The NBA is a unique environment, so there is going to be transition for any young kid, but I think coming from another country and culture is even harder. It does take a special toughness and confidence to deal with that, especially since a lot of times you don’t play a lot as a young player.

When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you’ll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.

We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I’m condemned to but can’t endure? They couldn’t stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other’s company, and they are heroes, whereas I’m quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism – the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I’m back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

The game honors toughness

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs, if you hate late nights. The snowy cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those and really make it inconvenient and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for the price you have to pay.

Nobody needs to worry about my toughness.

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It’s all mental. It’s what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It’s incredible.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit.

I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn’t know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That’s the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

If you move furniture all day, if you’re a construction worker, if you have a job that’s real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness