Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can’t stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

I’m always relaxed.

Boldness be my friend.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I’m never nervous.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I am fearless.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I love women with attitude.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.