Speaking Confidence Quotes

I did my first speech when I was 17, well, my first formal speech. So I've had time to deal with it, and to adjust to it, but I can't say I'm like gung-ho on public speaking or interviews for that matter.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

I enjoy, always, the feeling of being in front of an audience.

For me, announcing wasn't the ideal working condition.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat.

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.