Quotes About Confidence

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

I love showing off my skills on the pitch. You can make opposing players look stupid.

There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

I don't think I'm the 'Oprah' type.

I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.

I'm just comfortable in front of the camera. I'm like the male Oprah.

I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Optimism is the key.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

I have optimism for the future. You have to.

I think there is optimism to what I write.

I am an optimist, not a dreamer.

I'm an optimist at heart.

As for me, I'm an optimist.

I'm not a glass-half-full optimist. I'm a glass-overflowing optimist.