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Mental Quotes

Most Famous Mental Quotes of All Time!

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Quotes by Adrienne Rich

I think there's always mental and physical aspects of football.

Quotes by Adam Vinatieri

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

Quotes by Yogi Berra

Football is a lot to do with mental state.

Quotes by Xabi Alonso

Emotion Quotes

I have a mental coach, which is super cool, but it's also kind of eerie at times.

Quotes by Willie Cauley-Stein

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Quotes by William R. Alger

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Quotes by Wayne Gretzky

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

Health Quotes

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Quotes by Vince Lombardi

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Quotes by Vernon Howard

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Quotes by Tony Judt

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

Quotes by Tom Walker

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Quotes by Tipper Gore

Identity Quotes

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Vivekananda

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

Quotes by Sophia Bush

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Quotes by Smedley Butler

Every mental state is also physical.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Intensity Quotes

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Frequently Asked Questions

What's this Mental quotes collection about?
This page focuses on quotes about the mental side of competition and relationships — the idea that so much of performance, in sports especially, comes down to what's happening in the mind rather than the body. It also touches on the psychological dynamics within relationships. For more on the emotional dimension of that, see Emotion.
Why do people search for mental quotes?
Athletes, coaches, and fans often look for mental quotes to capture how much of a game is decided before it's physically played. Others are drawn to quotes that apply the same idea more broadly, to relationships or personal challenges. It connects naturally with Intensity for readers focused on competitive mindset.
There are two nearly identical quotes about sports being mostly mental — why include both?
One is about hockey and the other about baseball, and keeping both shows how often this exact framing gets reused across different sports by different people. It's a genuinely popular way athletes describe the mental side of their game, so seeing it repeated is part of the point. Readers can pick whichever version fits the sport they're writing or talking about.
Is there a quote here about the mental side of relationships specifically?
Yes — the quote describing relationships as a kind of mutual exchange, mental as much as physical, offers a more clinical, psychological take on how people connect. It's a sharper, less sentimental view than most relationship quotes, which makes it stand out. It's worth including for readers who want something more analytical.
What's useful about browsing the full page of mental quotes?
Reading them together shows how consistently people across different sports describe the mental game the same way, which reinforces just how central mindset is to performance. It also gives you a mix of tones — motivational for sports, more detached for relationships — to choose from. For quotes on mental resilience and identity, Health and Identity are worth exploring too.

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