“You seek a voice, but what do you get? Silence. You look for silence, but guess what? All you hear over and over and over is the voice of this omen. And sometimes this prophetic voice pushes a secret switch hidden deep inside your brain.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.”— Cristiano Ronaldo, independent.co.uk
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience...”— Gary Neville, thesackrace.com