He also worked with him from a mental standpoint, like, 'you've screwed up a lot; what do you have to do.'

I knew that the sacrifice he made from the physical and mental standpoint to get himself right to play this game.

He pulled his white championship cap down over his eyes as Cooper began to talk about the difficulty of the season from a mental standpoint.

This will have no bearing on the game other than from a mental standpoint.

But from a mental standpoint, getting a player from a winning previous season is an advantage.

For the 38-year-old Williams, the progress has been slow more from a mental standpoint, after undergoing the first operation of any sort on his knees.

Just from a mental standpoint, it's not the first time I've been there all week.

"I'm close to being all the way back from a mental standpoint," Gooden said.

"We don't want to give one away from a mental standpoint."

"From a mental standpoint, everything about this game is result-oriented," he said.