Quotes About Confidence

For me, to be on television and not be afraid of making a mistake is freeing.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

When I'm playing more freely, I can show my real quality.

I'm very comfortable with men - they're freer and a lot of fun!

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

When I drop a freestyle, I'm like, 'This freestyle gotta go hard' or when I do something it's, 'How can we top this?'

I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one, and the director says 'Action!' I freeze.

I never thought I could win the French Open.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I'm fresh, I'm fly, I'm flashy.

Everybody's got their ways of doing things and for me I've got to stay fresh, fly and flashy. So I'm going to make sure I'm fresh, fly and flashy in the ring too.

I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

There are days when I love a fresh blow-dry, but sometimes I just go with bedhead.

I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don't deserve to be in the league.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

My body's my best friend.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am and given me such confidence later in life.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.