Meanwhile, down on the floor, David was having a mental battle all his own.

It's a mental battle for me, something I have to deal with and work hard to try to understand what is different.

His lips pressed together as he fought a mental battle.

I was a little frustrated with my start, and so it was a mental battle.

But most people understand there's a terrific mental and psychological battle going on.

I could sense that he was trying to break me, and our sessions were a constant mental battle.

Mancini says he couldn't overcome the mental battle of advanced age.

He began carrying out random experiments to see if God existed or not during his mental battle with him.

He was fighting a strange mental battle against the weird unknown.

Marshall said: 'Half the mental battle in the game is stamina.