I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.
I'm no different than anyone. If you get more games, you're in the rhythm; that gives you confidence.
I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.
When you are not winning games in a row, you don't have confidence, and it is difficult to show all the qualities that you have.
I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.
I was made welcome in New Jersey. They were excited to have me. They told me they expected me to have bad games, and they expected me to have good games. That allowed me to gain confidence and continue to get better.
The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
The only way the confidence comes back is by winning games. You grind out a few results and hopefully with each game you get more confident.
I've worked for a long time and hope people have developed enough confidence in me that it will remain even in a period when we're not winning many games.
From my own experience, the more you play, back-to-back games, the better you feel, with more self confidence and rhythm.
Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before.
Once you get that feeling of winning something and performing at the highest level, you gain that extra confidence to help you set new targets. That is something I have always done, mentally-wise.
Some games you're going to be able to get rolling, you're going to get in a good rhythm, you're going to be able to get open looks. Other games, sometimes the rhythm's not there and you've got to get off it a little bit.
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.
I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.