Matt Kuchar Quotes

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

I can handle boos. Boos entertain me.

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

Never was I booed.

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

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.

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

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

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.

Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'

The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

The more happy you are off the court, the more you will get out of yourself on the court.

When it comes to the changing room, belief is a huge thing. It's one of the strongest attributes I have ever had and it has stayed with me from the very beginning.

When you continue to perform, your confidence level increases dramatically.

I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.

Personally, scoring goals creates confidence and I gain the mental stability and get poised from it.

I really don't listen to any of the negative stuff. Anything that's positive, that's kind of the stuff I'm listening to, and that's kind of what, like, brings you up.

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Against any team, confidence is crucial.

If anyone says you are bad, this mean he wants you to be good, and I am here to be good, and I want to be good. If they say I have done bad, then they should also give me a chance to change myself for good.