Rio Ferdinand Quotes

Every time, the mindset I get when I get on the floor is that I'm the best player on the floor.

When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

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

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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.

Every time I'm on the court, I think I'm the best player. That's the mind-set a lot of players should have.

I've always had a belief in myself and an ability to always do what I believe.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

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.

My strength was probably more the mental side of the game rather than the skill side. I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough, otherwise there is no point to it.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

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

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

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

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

A big part of fixing AOL is getting AOL to believe in itself.

I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?'

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'

I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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

People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.

Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them... For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself... So when you're in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence.