Quotes About Confidence

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

Every win that I've been going through, it's been securing anyone's doubts or even my own doubts about whether I belong with these guys, playing these high-level tournaments.

I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.

It is very important to be confident and strong even if you lose, because you know there are tournaments coming up next, and you have to be prepared for it.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.

I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.

There are so many tournaments when I started this way. I was so shy. I didn't really play well. And then all of a sudden I found the very strong, powerful Gael Monfils.

I believe now that I can win tournaments, and before I was just hoping.

For years, I didn't feel like I belonged in the second week of Grand Slam tournaments. I just wasn't good enough. But when the 2016 U.S. Open rolled around, I knew, for whatever reason, I was going to make a splash.

When you have to play a lot of tournaments and you get more experience and you get more confidence playing a lot of matches, and also you get mentally strong.

It's really great, winning some tournaments and leading the American group. It gives me a boost and a ton of confidence.

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

We have done so many tours and played for so many crowds. We know who we are.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

My entire life I've proved that I'm able to overcome people's negativity toward me.

I just don't care what people have to say. I keep pushing toward what I want. It's just how I am. I don't know where I got it from.

There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.

Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.

108 members of congress have signed onto my Resolution of No Confidence in Attorney General Holder as a first step towards recognizing that he must be held accountable for the actions of his department and for his personal unwillingness to cooperate with congressional oversight requests.