Sam Donaldson Quotes

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.

I think the most important thing is confidence. A lot of people think they're confident, but if you think about it, most people aren't.

I know my worth, and I have full faith in my talent.

Every day I need that confidence to get by. It ain't got nothin' to do with ball. It's who I am. It was instilled in me.

I know what my teammates think about me, I know what my coaches think about me. I don't concern myself with what anyone thinks outside of that.

I believe in my abilities.

My confidence is my strength.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

I'm glad people think that I can do well. I always say I would rather that be the scenario than on the other end of it saying, 'We thought she'd be real crappy.' I'll take the side that I'm on. I'll take that people think that I'm going to do well; they have faith in me and believe in me, and that makes me feel stronger.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.

I am a confident player, and a lot of people might look at it like, 'Oh, another cocky attitude,' but I don't look at it that way.

I've said before I've always believed in my ability.

I've always been a guy who's very confident in my own abilities.