Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are confident that our ship's medical staff will be exonerated.

We actually thought we had a goalie problem. But he has been playing well in net and our guys have confidence in front of him.

Dom Capers

To me, the worst thing you can do is do too many things, where the players are uncertain. I don't think they play as aggressive. The most important thing is, come Sunday, that they're confident and feel good going out there. They know exactly what to do, and they know exactly how to do it.

Casey Hampton

It's not going to take some super-human effort. Obviously, everybody has to do their job. I'm confident in our defense, and, if we play the way we can, we can get the job done. We don't have to have one person do something extraordinary.

Joe Torre

It's not an easy decision, obviously. But Heredia shouldn't be on the mound for me if I don't have confidence to do something like that. It's not an easy decision to make, but it was one I felt I had to and then just live with the results.

Jim Harrick

Ed wasn't going to let that happen to us again. He needed confidence in his knee to get past the injury, and the determination he showed that season was something special.

Everyone is playing well again, and our confidence is very high.

James Baker

Every one of the recommendations in our report, whether they are recommendations to the Congress or recommendations to the states, are designed to improve confidence in our system of federal elections.

Everyone is confident about 2006 growth. It may be lower than 2005, but it will still be quite solid.

Everyone has a lot of confidence. The one thing I've noticed is that they really have good chemistry. At any given chance, any one of them can get things going. They have a lot of confidence in each other. They dig a hole, but they keep fighting.

Everyone feels confident she will be ready. The last part of recovery, I think, is more mental than physical.

Everyone expects a pickup in enterprise spending in the last half of the year but we're not seeing it yet. This is still an environment where it is hard to have a high level of confidence forecasting a recovery.

Rex Grossman

Everyone has their own opinion on me - how I'm going to play, how good you think I am. I'm a pretty confident player. I feel like I can go out there and have a good game. That's all that matters.

Everybody's really prepared. Our confidence has been building, and we're just getting better as a team every game.

Everybody's looking toward consumer confidence in the States tomorrow, followed by other data later in the week.

strong earnings, confidence on the global economy and strong U.S. retail numbers over the (Thanksgiving) holiday period.

Dan Koppen

The backups take their jobs seriously and prepare during the week like they're going to be starters, prepare like they're going to play the whole game on Sundays. When you have guys on the team that take their jobs seriously, you have confidence putting them in those game situations.

The back nine was one of the toughest nines that I've played. I have a lot of confidence going into next week. Nothing could be better than representing my country.

There's time for things to happen, still lots of hockey left to play. But there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and we've been able to walk that line quite well.

The retail stores are doing well. Consumers remain confident, continue to be out there spending their money, ... A lot of money was created with lower interest rates and refinancing -- things of that nature. So, consumer confidence has stayed very high and retail stores, that have actually done it right, have been doing pretty well.

These numbers confirm the notion that consumer spending, which has been so resilient, is under some threat. With investor sentiment so weak and the labor market continuing to deteriorate, consumer confidence had only one way to go -- lower.

This is a very big win for us. I hope it's a big confidence booster.

Tommy Haas

This is definitely a good victory, not only for my own confidence but the game, and gives me good hopes next week.

The new law is liable to enhance confidence in the legal framework protecting property buyers.

It's really a big support group, and you confide in each other and trust in each other because you know they're going to be there for you.

It's good to see all three of those guys give us quality starts. Ross is a pretty confident guy. He's made a lot of progress in the last year.

It's really important for them and also for the team to see all the strikers scoring goals. Now the problem is for me. All of them are scoring goals, but it's a good problem and we will have more confidence for the forthcoming games.

Consumer spending is likely to become much more dependent on jobs and confidence by the third quarter, ... If labor markets have not turned, boosting confidence by then, the risk of a significant slowing in consumer spending will be very high.

Consumers in Florida continue to surprise me. I had expected consumer confidence to remain the same or decline this month, but consumers felt differently.

Consumers could raise spending by digging into savings, there's room. Though it may not be the most important thing right now, the persistent weakness in the labor market will weigh on confidence again.

Consumers aren't knocking the cover off the ball. Their confidence isn't a grand slam, but they aren't striking out, either.

James Smith

Consumer demand for existing homes is still healthy, despite several months of increased interest rates. The housing market will not be derailed because economic factors that drive consumer confidence -- employment, inflation and household wealth -- are at healthy levels.

Consumer confidence warned us already that this would be mild recession,