For many young teams, it takes a few postseason disappointments before they really learn to overcome the mental and physical hurdles of the playoffs.

There will be the physical and mental hurdles, with some linebackers inevitably taking shots at him.

Yet he has already scaled the requisite mental hurdles, and Riley has helped.

This change of emphasis from cash to produce is probably the most difficult mental hurdle.

It's self-doubt, self-imposed mental hurdles that you have to overcome.

At the end of the year, Johnson had overcome many mental hurdles and reestablished a new direction for his ski career.

He spoke of the Braves as a challenging lineup, not a mental hurdle.

It's kind of a mental hurdle you have to get over: if I play my best golf, will I win?

It has become a mental hurdle for the team, offensive guard Todd Perry acknowledged.

She smiled at me, nodding encouragingly as if urging a child across some mental hurdle.