Mithali Raj Quotes

We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.

When you have confidence, the atmosphere in the dressing room also improves.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

I've told the guys to keep their heads up. I really believe we played a great game here.

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

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

We must believe we can score in every moment - at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the game.

You have an atmosphere at Tottenham like, 'Okay, we are not scared of anyone,' and we have the same feeling with the national team. Everywhere we go at Tottenham, we have a good feeling.

Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.

The Australian team that I was lucky enough to play in had a certain aura and sometimes you had teams beaten before you even walked on the field.

I understand that some people might think differently, but my duty is to take confidence from playing well. And I'm convinced that with my attitude and ability, everything will go back to being the way it was before. That's what we all want. The Madrid fans and me.

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

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.

I feel as if we have the best team in the country. You've got to have that feeling.

I'm going in with the mentality that I'm going to win. If you don't go in there thinking that, you've already beat yourself.

Make the boys go off to the World Cup with a clear head, that everyone is behind them and everyone is with them, and trust me: I think you would definitely see a better England.

Cameroon can win the World Cup. People think I am crazy when I say this, but if you believe you have the best team in the world, you are stronger.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.