Quotes About Self-assurance

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

You sort of start to slowly earn more respect from the players. You have to get used to being there and know that you belong. Mentally, that's one of the hardest parts.

I'd say the biggest difference is knowing you can do something. You can sit here and say, 'I believe I can get a hundred tomorrow'. But it's a different statement to say, 'I know I can get a hundred tomorrow'. That's something I try to think about.

My personal style statement is to be comfortable because if you are comfortable you are confident.

There are difficult matches from time to time, and that is absolutely normal. You have to stay calm and confident after them.

Just really believe in yourself and stay true to yourself.

You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.

The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could succeed.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.

I remember doing a commercial one time where I stepped on a shard of glass, and I was hobbling around in swimwear. It was raining and in the commercial, when I saw it, I didn't look like I had a messed up foot.

To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

You have to buy what you're selling. If you don't buy what you're selling, nobody will.

I learned it is important to be confident in what you have and drown out all of the outside noise. You can't be distracted by what everyone else is doing and how they are doing it.

I'm not a guy who really gets caught up in outside noise or opinions, or anything like that.

I don't get jealous about 'normal' stuff.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

Every day I need that confidence to get by. It ain't got nothin' to do with ball. It's who I am. It was instilled in me.

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.