Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richie Sexson

For me, it's all about the first 81 games. It's by then that you know what the team has for the most part. If you get to 81 games with a decent record, the confidence grows. You start winning games you're not supposed to win.

I'm excited for her to go into this season with the confidence that she is a Pac-10 level shortstop. We know that she is going to come up with big plays, and be a stabilizing force.

I'm feeling pretty good right now, though I can never be totally satisfied with myself. But that's what makes me work harder. It was really important to get this first win, and our confidence is immeasurable right now.

I'm definitely going back. That was just for some experience, and it really helped my confidence knowing that I can pretty much hold my own with the top female shooters in the country. I proved to myself I can do it.

I'm really excited for the girls. We had a lead, but it's not over until it's over. Maybe we had to learn how to win. I think for us to hold onto this one, helped our confidence more than winning by 15 or 20 points.

I learned how to handle failure, I learned how to manage it. Confidence is something I've always had and it's something I'll probably never lose. I really feel like I'm in a different position now. I'm way more prepared.

Allen Iverson

I hope they were glad I was back and I hope that I did give them some type of confidence. It's important for my confidence for me to feel wanted and be able to go out there and make something happen.

James Blake

I hope that's kind of the reason they put me on this team, was that I hope the rest of the teammates have the confidence in me to deal with the pressure of playing a fifth match. I'm feeling pretty good about the way I'm playing. Hopefully, I'll do the same on Sunday.

I imagined it. It was a good start for me. Our team scored the first goal, so my confidence was there. ... But it's only one game.

Tim Duncan

I made a shot or two early, and my confidence kind of blossomed from there. I just kind of held it throughout the game.

Bobby Cox

I'm sure he felt good about it. It's surely a confidence builder.

Inflation is great. But if we're going into a slower growth period with inflation at those levels, it's going to slow down from here?I would think that consumers have more and more confidence that the Fed is doing its job.

Jamie Gorelick

In general we have confidence in the lab, ... There are some problems with it that have emerged through this report.

That?s our pattern in the fourth, to get to the line. I have confidence in our free-throw shooting.

Jay Wright

That's something our team can do because of our depth. I have confidence in our guys, one through twelve, and we have good team quickness. That helps us create turnovers.

That's one thing we've been struggling with all year long. ... You have to step up with confidence and knock them down.

That's one of the reasons why consumers are not going on a spending spree, though they're keeping the economic ship afloat. When higher unemployment numbers come out, that will probably rattle consumer confidence a bit.

Christopher Dodd

That's not what you want to send up, a person that doesn't have the confidence of the Congress, and so many people who have urged that he not be sent up to do that job.

That's a big boost. We have a lot of confidence in our defense.

That kind of tears a team's mentality and confidence down. But so far this year I haven't seen that.

Felipe Alou

That rally and win itself might help morale and the feeling here of defeat. It's one win. I wish it had been five games. Hey, things start small like that -- who knows? There will be more confidence tomorrow.

It's nice to come to venues where you have done well and I come here with a lot of confidence from those two weeks in America.

It's nice to score four; the top players do finish and need less chances, ... We were pleased Jon Stead scored because he's a really hard-working forward who has had a lack of confidence in front of goal.

It's most important that we recover public confidence and unite ourselves.

It's still going to be a tough time for quite a while for the market, ... The market really is driven by confidence and now that's been eroded by credibility factors.

It's something really cool to see the confidence of this team develop.

Joe Torre

It's not an easy decision, obviously. But Heredia shouldn't be on the mound for me if I don't have confidence to do something like that. It's not an easy decision to make, but it was one I felt I had to and then just live with the results.

Jim Harrick

Ed wasn't going to let that happen to us again. He needed confidence in his knee to get past the injury, and the determination he showed that season was something special.

Everyone is playing well again, and our confidence is very high.

James Baker

Every one of the recommendations in our report, whether they are recommendations to the Congress or recommendations to the states, are designed to improve confidence in our system of federal elections.

Everyone has a lot of confidence. The one thing I've noticed is that they really have good chemistry. At any given chance, any one of them can get things going. They have a lot of confidence in each other. They dig a hole, but they keep fighting.

Everyone expects a pickup in enterprise spending in the last half of the year but we're not seeing it yet. This is still an environment where it is hard to have a high level of confidence forecasting a recovery.

Everybody's really prepared. Our confidence has been building, and we're just getting better as a team every game.