Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teammate Shyjan in a fiercely contested three-setter Saturday. With Shyjan up a set and serving for the set, at 5-4 he was two points away from the match at 30-30. Zimmerman, however, demonstrated just what it is that makes him such a tough player--his incredible mental strength--fighting back to take the match...
...wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid, and he thought everyone was after...
...emotional wanderings, M is more like us than we wish to accept. In a final, passionate attempt to synthesize her internal world with the external world she is not quite ready to believe in, she declares that she needs someone to understand her, to guide her through her mental morass. She calls out in a desperate, plaintive voice, "We all hope, looking into the eyes of another, to find an answer...
...maybe golfers don't have Tony Mandarich bodies or Carl Lewis legs. But anyone who can drive a tiny, white ball more than 300 yards and have it land right in the middle of the fairway must have plenty of mental toughness and just the correct amount of athletic ability...
While Lem believes that his players possess the requisite skills to succeed, he believes that they must develop as a team and foster greater mental toughness...