Famous Quotes & Sayings

I look forward to working together with them and I am truly honored that the team has placed its confidence in me.

I lost a lot of confidence (in basketball) because I didn't speak English.

Moreover, the four motors of consumption -- that is wages, inflation, unemployment and consumer confidence -- are on a downward trend and should drag spending down.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.

Al Stewart

(Moss) got his rhythm going, and his confidence went over 100 percent. That's what good players do. They shoot until they make them.

Mortgage rates fell this week as a result of the Consumer Confidence report , which hit a 4-1/2 year low. Lower confidence translates into slower consumer spending. Less spending means less growth, and less growth means less inflationary pressure, keeping mortgage rates affordable.

My guess is that neither the governor or the Legislature is going to start distributing funds until we have an extraordinarily high degree of confidence that the money is in the bank.

Maybe it's just the confidence I have going back to Indiana, or maybe it's the home soil, I don't know.

Maybe he needs to get a couple of rebounds and get fouled and get to the line. I?m confident if we get to the foul line we can shoot our way out of this slump that we are in.

Billy Donovan

Maybe the crowd has something to do with it. I don't know what the reason would be. There are some teams, they feel more pressure at home and they play looser on the road. There are some teams that feel a lot more confident at home and they aren't as confident on the road. What gets into it, creeps into the mindset, I'm not really sure. I wish I had the answer.

Now we are not considered favorites, but we fear nobody. We have no pressure on us. That is to say if we don't win, we lose everything. Egypt are improving steadily, are confident and will have the little matter of 74,000 people supporting them in an incredible atmosphere.

Marc Chandler

Now they are less than 50 percent confident that there will be any rise.

Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.

Now that we are back home, we're getting our confidence back. We're just perfecting everything back in practice.

Now that everybody has some games under their belts, they know what's expected of them. We execute and make hustle plays. We're trying to get our confidence up now that we're heading for the playoffs.

Needless to say, we needed this one bad. We needed a confidence builder.

Hector Rodriguez

New Mexico ended up punching us in the mouth but our guys didn't collapse. Every week it's just gotten better and better. Nobody has been satisfied. Going into Howard there is just a confidence and swagger about us.

David Wright

Obviously it hurts us not having our big guys in there. Hopefully we get them back soon. But we have a lot of confidence in the guys we're throwing out there. If we hit, we're going to win. We're not going to win too many games getting three hits and one run.

Geno Auriemma

Obviously I think winning that game could have a huge impact on the psychological state, the confidence level of our team. That's obvious. But at the same time, we're home. We're Connecticut. Everybody think we're one of the top-10 teams in the country. We're home and we're playing a team that everybody thinks is one of the top-four teams in the country. Going into the game, yeah, we expect to win this game. That's what you're supposed to think if you're us.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it would be good to have Dom in there. But he's injured and we're just happy with the way Ray's been playing. He's never been there before, but you've got to start somewhere. We feel very confident in him and he's going to be the guy for us.

Sami Kapanen

Obviously, it's tough playing that many games on the road. It helps that we won the first three games. It gives us confidence for the long stretch.

Mike Jacobs

Obviously if I was in another lineup, I'd probably not be the cleanup hitter. So for me, personally, it's kind of an honor. I'm glad they feel confident in me to put me in that position. For me, it's just exciting to be in the big leagues opening up. Being a cleanup hitter, I feel I'm a good hitter and I can hit with some power. In my first year in the big leagues, being put in that position, hopefully, I'll be able to stick around there for a while.

Obviously consumers have been very receptive. We are confident they will respond to the program as they have the last few months.

Nobody went past her. She may not be the fastest defender, but she reads it extremely well. Her confidence level has to be quite high right now.

Nobody has confidence in us but our team. They knock the Missouri Valley but not too many teams want to play us.

Nothing is going to happen in terms of improving confidence until something happens in terms of an improving labor market, and that might well take until after New Year's.

Given that we're at least a couple of months away from turnaround in the labor market, the fact that consumer confidence is not doing much worse than treading water is actually a good-news story.

Getting those three guys back kind of makes your confidence level go way high. When they were in there, we were doing great things. Getting them back makes us feel like we can do even greater things.

Getting the lead was very important. I wanted the kids to get some confidence.

Getting a jump-start would be amazing. It gives us confidence and takes the stress off of the defense and pitching.

For me the hardest part was getting up the guts and confidence in my ability.

Steve Bernier

For me right now, it's a dream come true. So if I want to play, I have to play good. My confidence is high right now.

Frederic has been in pain for a month but he has played very good games with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup and the French championship and we are confident he will be at his best.