Stephen Covey Quotes

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

And I know it's an old cliche, but winning and being in a winning position breeds confidence - cliche or not, it's still true.

Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Obviously, when you're getting games, you're getting confidence as well.

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

So I had to change my mental outlook from, 'wow, this is Lee Haney, the icon we are all trying to aspire to,' to, 'this is the guy I am trying to beat.' I thought, 'I can't be in awe of this guy because, if that is your attitude then you're not going to have much chance of winning.'

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

I'm sure that I'm a winner person. I'm sure that I win more than lose.

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.

A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.