Javier Mascherano Quotes

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

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

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

In the NBA, you win, and you think you're going to win tomorrow. But as soon as you lose, you don't think you're ever going to win again.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

The most difficult thing with a new shot is if you go two or three games without making it, or you struggle, and people start saying, 'You can't shoot 3s,' or, 'Why do you shoot 3s?'

We always think that the next match is the most important one.

No, I don't get nervous when I play basketball.

I'm not worried about the Masters. I never worry about this tournament or that tournament.

I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.

It is just down to confidence. When I haven't got any, I hate playing the game.

Sometimes self-esteem affects you on and off the pitch. Until you face your next game and you miss an easy chance, for example, then you feel not as great.

A player playing with confidence is better than a player playing with doubt in his head.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

You can see players do things in training that aren't a problem but they can't in a game situation. You have to work on it, relax and be brave.

I've never felt like I've had a good game.

I'd be lying if I said there weren't times when I hadn't lost a little bit of confidence. But the people around me, close to me, were the ones to tell me I'd been playing slightly differently, not as confidently as I had been.

I feel like a fight is a season. When you're in the UFC, one fight is the equivalent of a whole football season, so when you lose a fight, the fans only remember you from your last fight, so it's very important to perform well, and to keep winning.

If I miss 20 in a row and coach tells me to keep shooting, that's what I'm going to do.

I feel like if I play my game then I can beat anyone on my day, so there's no pressure.

I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.