Confidence Quotations | Page 4

We grew up today. We took a stride in the right direction. That's something we'd been missing - that attitude, that killer instinct, that swagger and that confidence that you need to win games this time of year.

We grew in confidence tonight. The younger girls feel that their going to have a big year next year.

We grew in confidence as the second half progressed and I thought if anyone was going to win the game it was going to be us. We are reasonably happy with a point as a lot of good teams come here and don't get anything.

We blew a couple of scoring opportunities in the second half but the main thing is that we got the job done in the end. The boys have taken a lot of confidence from that although there is another tough one ahead this week.

We believe you are on the right path and we have full confidence in you to continue your action, ... We know that the international effort will last for years to come, and France will fully play its part.

We are getting good results against the top sides and not slipping up against the smaller ones. We are emerging as challengers for the title. There is still a big gap to reduce but, as the season goes on and we keep getting the results, our confidence will get bigger and bigger.

We are getting confidence in what we do. We have a good sequence now and we feel pretty good.

We are getting better and our confidence is building. We're trying to find the identity of the offense. We have special players around us, and the offensive line is just doing what it has to do.

What's nice about him is that he has more confidence in swallowing a pebble and letting the ripples play on the surface, than in making a big splash. He's working less externally. His greatest moments are when he's not even aware of what's registering on his face.

We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.

We're going to have to play very well next weekend. Fortunately, I think we'll go into it pretty healthy. I thought today was a good showing overall, although the results weren't great. We showed toughness and more confidence today.

We're going to have to be a smarter basketball team the last three or four minutes. If it comes down to it, we have confidence in our free throws. Against Newark I don't think we played good defense. Against Lancaster we didn't handle the ball well or make good decisions.

Unless the ordinary Kashmiri folk are taken into confidence and also roped into the decision making process, what meaning does the dialogue have?

Unless the ordinary Kashmiri folk are taken into confidence and also roped in the decision making process, what meaning does the dialogue have?

Unless the labor market gains some steam and momentum, both real income and confidence of consumers would be hurt.

Unless the Bush administration can successfully counter recent criticism, Bush and consumer confidence might continue to flounder. If so, the markets will justifiably worry about Bush's chances of re-election.

Very few of the responses will have a post-attack impact, ... In the last two weeks people have ... been very distracted. Filling out response cards to consumer confidence surveys has not really been their number one priority.

With unemployment at a 30-year low and the short-term Conference Board forecast projecting favorable labor market conditions, confidence is expected to remain strong through the summer. Volatile financial markets and interest rate hikes are not expected to have a significant impact.

We're moving now. We're at 8:00. We start the night off on Monday nights. It's a great vote of confidence from the network.

Yellow perch are extremely valuable to Ohio sport fishermen. It is essential that we are able to accurately measure both sport and commercial harvests. These changes in the commercial rules are a step toward improving our confidence in the numbers of fish actually harvested.

World Cups are important because you have to ski well and gain confidence for the Olympics. You have to have other goals besides the Olympics because the Olympics is only one race.

work well with the offense. We can run and throw effectively with both of them. It does not matter who starts, because we have 100 percent confidence in both of them.

With the leadership and the confidence he has in his teammates and the unselfishness that he has as that point guard now, he's able to orchestrate. He knows who's hot and where they want to get it. He knows the offense well enough now to know what to call and it's like an extension of the bench.

With the increasing number of millionaire households, comes an increasing confidence as over three-quarters of high-net worth households feel they will be financially prepared for retirement. These millionaire households understand that calculated risks are still a necessity within their portfolio design, however, over 50 percent have become much more conservative in their investment approach over the past year.

We're going to do the testing that's required. That's essential because voters do need the confidence that their votes will be counted accurately.

We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. Like Coach says, 'bring all that you got.' Hopefully we're going to be good.

We're expecting to cool off a little bit, but we're hoping we can maintain our hitting. We know the runs aren't going to come, but we hope to keep hitting it hard and put it in play a bunch. We're very realistic, but it's good to have this confidence built up now.

We're expecting him to mention consumer confidence numbers and consumer spending numbers and to come out and say we need to ensure that consumer confidence is bolstered. We're expecting him to come out and basically let the markets know to expect a cut in March.

We're extremely proud of our entire sales team, and this new sales structure reflects our confidence in the team's abilities to maximize Take-Two's position in the video game industry. The individuals promoted today have played a leadership role in managing our sales initiatives for a number of years. We are further supporting our retail customer base to fit their needs and our growing business.

We're just not putting ourselves in good positions. We had good looks, but unfortunately, the confidence wasn't there after we missed. And one thing is Lemont always plays very aggressive man-to-man defense. They do a nice job. They're very quick and they switch on screens, so they take away that part of your game.

We?re just not executing like we?re capable of, so we have to work on it. We have confidence in the players we have to get it done.

We're getting better. We're playing with more confidence now.

We're getting a lot more pressure defensively. The system has been there all year and the girls are starting to get the confidence to play in it.

We're getting a flip with these numbers, ... We had been seeing all year long the consumer doing well and the manufacturing sector doing poorly. Here, consumer confidence has fallen, but there's a hint of the manufacturing sector stabilizing.

We're gaining more confidence on offense. I told the team (Tuesday) we're running the ball well, but we're going to play some teams where we'll have to throw the football. Josh (Miller) had his best passing day in practice that he's had all year. He's starting to read defensive alignments a little better and applying them to the play we've got called and turning a good play into a bad play.

We're gaining more confidence as we're going along.

We're gaining confidence in the belief that the source (of the leak) is the pool. We don't believe it's a bigger problem down the road, but we're not done. We have about a dozen more wells to dig.

We're gaining a lot of confidence in each other, in the new offense and with the coach. Things are looking pretty good for us right now.

We're hoping that we get our confidence back.

We're not as determined as we were last season. We still play hard, but last season we played hard and smart. Whether it's because of a lack of confidence or whatever, we're not the same team right now.

We're battling now. Before we were getting a little nervous as the game went on when it was tight. Now we're playing with a lot more poise with the puck. It's a sign our confidence is getting better.

Top 30 is something you'd like to do, but I hadn't done anything to feel confidence enough that top 30 was attainable, ... It's been a lot of fun. This is like a pat on the back for the guys have played great.

Three wins in a row has given us a lift and If it's down to spirit and confidence then I fancy us.

Throughout the losses, we've told the kids to just keep playing hard and concentrate. We had our best game of the year. We needed to get our confidence back and this was the game to do it.

Throughout our history in times of testing, Americans have come together in prayer to heal and ask for strength for the tasks ahead, ... So I've declared Friday, Sept. the 16th, as a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. I ask that we pray - as Americans have always prayed in times of trial - with confidence in His purpose, with hope for a brighter future, and with the humility to ask God to keep us strong so that we can better serve our brothers and sisters in need.

We're real fragile now. We're working hard. We've just got to get our confidence up.

With the options we have right now, Sean remains our best one, even though he's not pitched well and it hasn't been pretty lately. I think he's capable in my mind -- he's pitched some good games -- but I think his confidence right now is a big part of it.

With what's happening in the market, we see that confidence is going down in terms of older Americans feeling comfortable with their nest eggs. We got ourselves into a period of false confidence, expecting double-digit returns on all our investments. Now, we are seeing people reassessing where they are with respect to what the market is doing and what the economy is doing as they see their 401(k) funds and IRA accounts go south.

We knew they would be tough in the singles matches so we knew we needed to win at least two doubles matches to have a chance. We won three and after that we really took their confidence down and we were able to pick up two more wins in singles play.

We know what we can do. The confidence is already there. We haven't been as good as we are. We haven't shown our abilities. But we will.

We know we have to restore public confidence in the entire process because this anomaly occurred.

We know how good we are. We're just going there and playing our game. It's a confidence thing.

We know expectations are going to be high. The Liberian people have voted for their confidence in my ability to deliver ... very quickly,

We know every game is big at this point. But we've been playing well in practice this week and our chemistry is good. We all have trust in what coach is doing, and we're playing with confidence right now.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP growth have increased substantially, and the chances of a full-fledged recession just went up -- perhaps approaching 50-50. Job losses cut directly into the spending of the newly unemployed, and indirectly tend to have a very real impact on the confidence of those who are still working. If demand falls, firms will lay off more employees, and the downward spiral could put us over the edge into a bona fide recession before the Fed's actions can take effect.

With this team, what you see is what you get. We?re playing with a lot of confidence right now, probably as much as we have all season. Our backs have been to the wall for a while and we were able to put together a nice little run here when we needed it the most.

Words can't describe what he means not just to the secondary but to this team. He brings confidence, energy, faith. Anything you say about him is an understatement.

We're still in sluggish trade. Confidence is not good in Hong Kong; investors are still worried about interest rates and the market is not optimistic about the results announcements.

We're still in contention for the Pac-10 championship, and that's our goal. I guess we're content, but we're only halfway through it. Our confidence has grown winning these two games.

We're still fine; we have no doubts about ourselves. We haven't lost any confidence in ourselves. When it's time to turn it on, we'll turn it on and we'll just rock and roll.

We're steps ahead of last year. We're playing more like a team. We have confidence in each other.

We're seeing quiet confidence building on a month-to-month basis. Good people are getting harder to find, and you have to make sure that you pay them appropriately.

We're looking for long-term growth, we're not really into micro-management of investments. We wouldn't want it to be a permanent state of affairs, but we have confidence it won't be.

We're looking for expenses that are coming in line and gross margins that are working, and that's what we saw. These results give us more confidence that Sears can continue to improve earnings in 2006.

We're not helping ourselves. We're not complementing one another. That's one of the things we've got to do. That's just poor performance. We've got to take advantage of those plays and make something happen instead of turning right around and giving the momentum and confidence to that football team.

We've got more than myself and Eric playing big in the tournament. That's the thing in college basketball -- when confidence comes, you play better.

We've tried to remind him that he's a very good player and he can make plays for us. That's a nice boost for his confidence going into our last game.

We've tried to jump ahead of teams early to get our confidence and maybe shake the other team's. But Duquesne believes they're the best team every year, so we know they'll have their confidence.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

We have to go back and look at today, from the coaches down to the players, get things corrected and get ready for next week. It's one game. You hate to lose a game, but at some point, if you lose it, you lose it. What we have to do is get our confidence back.

We have to give the players back the confidence because we are approaching the World Cup (in early 2007).

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

We have to get our confidence up and used to the puck.

We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.

We have no confidence in our ability and no confidence that we are doing it right. We just made too many mistakes. We are afraid of failure and doing something wrong.

We have some confidence that we can go in and do something (at the tournament). If we can get our game on the floor, we'll have a good chance.

We have some confidence from the last game in Sydney but they (Adelaide) are 10 to 15% stronger at home in Adelaide.

We have so many talented guards and we wait to see who?s going to step up on any given night. Tonight was Kristin?s night. She did everything well. ... She played with confidence and that?s something we need out of her.

Whenever we are running it, we were successful at it. It gave them more confidence for the next time we did it.

When you see a guy have success, hopefully it gives them confidence in you. You never know when your next chance will come, so you always want to have a positive experience whenever you do get to play.

When you score two goals one game and one goal the next and you get four points, that's great because we weren't getting (points) when we were scoring three and four. It's huge and this is going to get everybody's confidence going. We need to pull out games like this and then atmosphere is a little bit better in the workplace, you know?

When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.

We wanted to try to get back on the right track and get some confidence early.

We were a very good team with Adam and Mike up front and Matt and Jake making plays from the midfield. What turned us into a great team was moving Shane Curran-Hays to sweeper. The other players have total confidence in him. The guys know that they can hold the ball a little longer now. Shane gets to balls that other people would not. His presence made a great change in us in the back. We are quick at every position, really. So communication becomes key, especially because we play zonal defense.

We were already playing good hockey before the Olympic break. We were playing with confidence, and it's that confidence that we brought with us on this trip.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

We were hoping to get off to a start like this, ... We've played well at times this season, we've played inconsistent at times. The biggest thing is the confidence this win will give our team for the second half of the season.

We'll see, ... Joe, of course, has played, and Hackett hasn't played very much so we'll see. He has certainly worked hard to do this, and I have confidence in him. We'll see how it goes.

We are all right. We're not going to underestimate anybody. We knew we could play with anybody. It was best to go out there and show it. Our confidence is up and skyrocketing.

The reduction in sales is a plus for bonds. Investor confidence in the government's ability to manage public debt is increasing.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.