Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

It's tougher obviously after a loss because guys are down emotionally. On days after a loss sometimes you've really got to snap their focus in. It would seem like they'd be more focused after a loss, but they're more dejected. Their confidence is down. You spend have the time trying to work them into it. Today we didn't have to do that.

Adam Scott

It's totally a game of confidence. When you've got that confidence, you've got to run with it because who knows how long it's going to last?

I want to prove to them and prove to myself, gain that confidence back that's it's a good knee, that I can cut, ... because if you're a corner and you can't cut in the NFL, you're pretty much toast. None of us want that.

I want to know that we bettered ourselves for the playoffs in each game we have left. We want to leave each of our games with confidence from our performance.

Guillermo Coria

I wanted to reach at least the quarter-finals or semi-finals here in order to get some confidence,

I wanted to press and keep the pressure on, because I think if they were not going to have as much confidence in their ball-handling skills, but I've been in his position, so I know how he's (Fountain) feeling right now. The shots were there in the first half, but they just didn't fall. I told them to keep shooting, because eventually they will fall, but we had some good looks.

It took hundreds of hours of telescope time before we were confident that we could do reliable science.

Guillermo Coria

It took a lot of work with the conditioning coach, and I feel as strong as ever, and I'm going to continue to work with it so I don't have problems. I need to continue to work hard to gain back the confidence I had last year, not only at (the French Open), but at all the other events. Work hard, that's all I have to do for now.

It took a lot of pressure off us. We are looking at her like, 'Are you serious?' I feel like the entire season, the team has felt a sense of confidence as a result of her relaxed demeanor.

Jack Johnson

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime, ... We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

It will take time to gel, of course, but I'm confident our fluency will be back soon and the results will follow.

Donald Rumsfeld

It will take a broad, sustained effort that will have to use our diplomatic, our political, our economic, our financial strength, as well as our military strength, ... It will take time. It's not a matter of days or weeks. It's years. It's going to take the support of the American people and I have every confidence it'll be there.

It was just a really good win to get. It has to help our confidence and make us realize that we can be a good team if we keep playing the way we we're playing.

They could have easily sent me down to work on some things, ... They didn't. They had the confidence in me that I would turn it around. I feel like I was given the chance. And I'm trying to do something with it now.

The two-steps-forward, one-step-back sequence is not at all uncommon for the Consumer Confidence Index during the early stages of an economic recovery.

(The two-run first inning) made us feel great. I'm sure it helped Lauren keep her confidence on the mound. I'm real proud for our girls, and we displayed a great team effort tonight.

The U.S. has never been able to protect the population, and has thus never won its confidence and secured its support.

The U.S. consumer confidence index has fallen for several months in a row and consumption prospects in the American market are gloomy, posing a relatively large threat to China's exports.

The U.S. consumer confidence data was very, very robust and the data from Germany was a factor in supporting the euro, but a lot of investors are not willing to run any risk at the moment.

They delivered on the revenues, they delivered on the guidance ... they looked pretty confident going forward.

They defend you very well anyway. But once you give them confidence they play pretty well.

Ralph Klein

They vote as to whether they're going to have one. And if they have one, to me that says that there's no confidence in me.

They have shown glimpses of that kind of play throughout the season. Hopefully with a little confidence, we can be a little more consistent.

Jamie Dixon

They have players everyone wanted. They'll be playing with a lot of emotion, and they'll have a lot of confidence for this game.

They have one shooter and we did not get out on him. He made his first 3-pointer, and I was like, 'O boy.' He got confidence and it snowballed from there.

Tommy Amaker

They look like a very confident and spirited group right now. We've kind of gone on the other side of things.

Adam Gilchrist

They'll take a lot of confidence from it, but so did we.

They'll ride with more confidence ... because they can ride with more speed.

Ryan Giggs

They'll be confident after such a great win, I was shocked when I heard the result but it's international football and anything can happen,

Pope John

There was a big difference in her mental attitude. You could just she was a lot more confident after that win.

The resiliency of the economy, recent declines in prices at the pump and job growth have consumers feeling more confident at year-end than they felt at the start of 2005.

There's not a lot of confidence right now and a lot of that is still accounting. People are not willing to step up and grab a falling knife.

Carl Everett

There's no reason to get down. We know we can win. Losing yesterday and losing today is not going to knock any confidence from us.