Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess…

This thing, boxing, is a mental battle.

— Daniel Jacobs

So much of boxing is to do with your mental state. Evander Holyfield talks about spirit. I definitely have that spirit and feel like…

— Daniel Dubois

Running is such a mental sport.

— Mary Cain

It's more of a mental sport because I know I can push harder than someone who doesn't know what his body can do.

— Joey Chestnut

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game it is.…

— Kylie Bunbury

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side…

— Kelly Slater

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport…

— Voltaire

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as…

— Lauren Oliver

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

— Zicheng Hong

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my…

— Mikhail Tal

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

— Roger Ebert

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

— Alfred George Gardiner

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

— Nigel Short

For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do…

— Charles Soule