Matt Cain Quotes

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

Goalkeeping is very, very much about confidence and thinking you are the man.

I want to get more confident with each game.

I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.

The pro game is about confidence.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

As a footballer, you have to be confident you can win all the time so it does not come as a surprise.

You have to be confident when you've got someone in front of you who wants to beat you and take the title from you. But I think people mistake my confidence for arrogance or cockiness.

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

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.

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

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

Any player will stand in front of you and say they're confident in their abilities and I'm no different.

I'm getting more confident in what I can do in the ring, and that just comes with hard work and training.

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

I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.

It is important to have the attitude and self confidence to be Barca's goalkeeper, and that I've got.

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

I trust myself. I trust my shots.

I'm always confident in my ability; you have to be as a goalkeeper.

There's always that mental battle, who's going to have that confidence to be on the front foot.