I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

To lack confidence at the outset seems rational to me. It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.

Football is all about confidence, if you’re not confident you won’t enjoy it. I enjoy the game.

Lack of confidence kills more dreams than lack of ability.

Talent matters—especially at elite levels—but people talk themselves out of giving their best effort long before talent becomes the limiting factor.

You're capable of more than you know. Don't be your own bottleneck.

Young players are a little bit like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100% sure that the melon is good.

Confidence is key for any footballer.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

Secondary choices are always subordinate to a primary choice. Often there is no reason to make such choices outside the context of the primary choice that calls for them.

Athletes and musicians may not enjoy practicing long hours, but they do so just the same; not out of duty, obligation, or any other form of self-manipulation, but because they are making secondary choices consistent with their primary choice to be able to perform music or excel at sports.

The sad truth is, great talent is not enough.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Which games you play is more important than how well you play them.

At this moment in time, it's pointing in the direction that the players aren't good enough, to be able to (i) take on the instructions that we give them and (ii) deal with the situation when the pressure is turned up - and it's disappointing. OK, there's a disappointing group of players in there but you keep on shooting yourself in the foot week in and week out. Something has to change.

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.