Jason Moran Quotes

You can visualize, and you can try to trick yourself into thinking a certain way. There's all kinds of things you can do to try to get in the right spot mentally. But at the end of the day, to have real confidence, you've got to be doing good at your craft.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.

You may not be playing your best tennis or having your best match; sometimes it's just not your day. The important thing is to believe in yourself, which starts with being confident in your abilities.

I think my biggest thing is if you don't believe in you, then others are not going to believe in you.

I know how good I can be. I'm not being big-headed. I think all players have to have that confidence and self-belief.

Before the game, getting guys in the right mindset and confident - you play well when you're confident. People can say 'cockiness' or whatever, but there are results when you play with a confidence and you believe in yourself.

Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

If you do not believe yourself no one else will.

Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

When you have confidence, you can do anything.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.