Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The big Saturday meets are good for us. But the smaller meets can really provide us with a confidence booster.

A vote of no confidence shows that you've become aggravated to the point of no return.

Jeff Hawkins

A win like this helps the freshmen. We haven't won as many games as we have in the past, and a lot of them are probably thinking like, 'Man.' But the more we win and the more we play good, it gets their confidence up.

A win at No. 1 doubles may have helped stem their confidence some, but we won't know if that would have made a difference in the match. They are very talented at the top three spots and that was tough to overcome when they can play comfortably with a 3-0 cushion.

As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued consumer spending.

As long as we have confidence going into our matches, we have a great shot at winning some of those big contests. We plan on doing some things that have never been done at MTSU in women's tennis.

As long as they stay in that logical band, investor confidence should remain high.

As long as he keeps playing with (the swagger) and keeps his head up and plays with confidence, we'll go a long way.

As long as my confidence stays up, we should do great. This is our year.

Jack Layton

As it stands at the moment, if there's a motion of non-confidence on the table in the House, we will not be supporting or indicating confidence in the government.

That was a big one, man. We know how good we are. It's just us going out there playing. We went out, played our game and had fun doing it. It's a confidence thing.

That was a big hit because that run there in the first inning gave us a lot of confidence.

That's what we've been doing the last few games. Our press has been real effective, it gets us a jump start, and gives them confidence right off the bat.

Brodie Croyle

That's what we're here for. We can't reach our dreams if we don't have confidence in ourselves to get the win.

That (title) means a lot because that was one of our goals going into the season. As a confidence-builder, it's pretty big. We still want to finish it out undefeated. Definitely, we're on a roll.

Brian Cashman

That's what's required of them. That's what a No. 1 and a No. 2 guy's job is, to lead a staff. And we have full confidence in them.