Emeka Okafor quote: "I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the basket. I could fake it, but my confidence wasn't that high. Now I'm getting it because I have something to work with."

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.
FOREL DAVIES

I know I have to improve my offense - my jump shot and my moves in the post. I feel comfortable with...
JASON BENNETT

My style is very laid back. I like to be comfortable, but with some kind of piece that pumps it up a...
TORI KELLY

I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say...
KERRY WASHINGTON

I had been struggling with my golf swing, but even though I missed the cut at Doral, I felt like I w...
DUDLEY HART

I was pretty mad when it happened, because I had really improved my game. But it was a blessing now,...
JACOB HAZOURI

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would ha...
SPALDING GRAY

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people ...
TINA TURNER

I ponder to myself, ... this could be my last couple of starts, or the last one. It was a real hard ...
ROGER CLEMENS

ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su...
AMBER FAITH HUN

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career st...
AARON STATON

I felt in good form before the match and my confidence was high but I just do not seem to play well ...
JOE PERRY

I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ...
(I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV

I?ve never had a legitimate chance to win here (in the United States), ... I?ve had a few top-fives,...
JUSTIN ROSE

The game was over because my dad had died and I didn't have to fight him anymore, ... I could go bac...
MARK STEVENS

It was my brain. My swing was out of sync and my putter was a detriment. It would be scary if I had ...
ARRON OBERHOLSER

My confidence is high right now, I just keep trying to build from game to game. It was tough for a c...
DREW NEITZEL

I'm fine, no problem with that. If I have time to ready and get comfortable, I have no problem with ...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

I felt comfortable once I got my feet wet, but I still have things to work on.
CLINTON POLK

It made me make my goals a lot higher now that I can see where I can go with this. It boosted my con...
CARLY SZMYD

It was tough to watch. I felt that if I could have been in the game I could have made a difference a...
IFEOMA ONUAKU

What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say...
DEYTH BANGER

I got my butt kicked at Pinehurst. But I am starting to get my confidence back. It is good getting s...
AARON BARBER

I've never played 100 percent fit with the France team. My game depends a lot on my fitness. My self...
LOUIS SAHA

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myse...
BETH DITTO

I know we had made a field goal and an extra point, but I don't have 100 percent confidence in our k...
BART KING

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the...
JACK OSBOURNE

Fate.
She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisi...
BELLA ANDRE

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkwar...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

turned off the BlackBerry before James could text back. I might hate electronic wizardry, but it was...
BARBARA DELINSKY

It was really surreal. I had some family members there. I felt like I got the monkey off my back and...
ALAINA HARTMAN

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think...
TORI KELLY

Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD

Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by tha...
VANESSA LACHEY

There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It'...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was...
GENE WILDER

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and par...
POPPY Z. BRITE

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of th...
CATE BLANCHETT

Joey's still our guy, but if it came down to where I needed to go in, I have full confidence that I'...
DAN ORLOVSKY

It's hard. It feels like back in high school my senior year. Four years of hard work and it's all ov...
DELCO ROWLEY

I'm disappointed with myself because I still think I could have done way better than what I did. But...
DIEGO ROMERO

I felt I could run faster than I did (at the combine). I didn't feel comfortable there. I was out of...
DEE WEBB

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must ...
ELIZABETH ANDERSON

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must ...
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON

I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortab...
BOBBI BROWN

It was one of those nights I was seeing it well, ... Maybe it had something to do with Jacque moving...
JOE MAUER

My confidence is up. I just think the big part is my teammates have confidence in me and they're get...
LATOYA PRINGLE

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my wa...
TAVI GEVINSON

My biggest fight right now is getting doctors not to run out on me. I never thought I would be hopin...
DANIELLA GALVEZ

Every song I write, even if it's fiction, I have to draw from something in my life to connect it wit...
ALLEN SHAMBLIN

There are times when I've been so depressed I can't see straight. At my age I should have been 80 pe...
MICHAEL GORMAN

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What wo...
JOYCE CARY

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambiti...
JENNIFER EHLE

This was a big game and being a freshman, I knew I needed confidence. I had confidence, and I just n...
ALLY JENSEN

I would think so. Like a fine wine, you get better with age. You're comfortable with the system, you...
TOMMY MADDOX

Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE

To begin with, I had to take my faith and my beliefs and set them aside, so I could take an objectiv...
BROCK GILL

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn'...
GEORGE HARRISON

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.
CHANEL IMAN

I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach t...
ALLEN IVERSON

I just had to figure out a way to deal with the defense. Last year, I could do whatever I wanted but...
DIONNE MARSH

I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f...
CYNTHIA VOIGT

It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for th...
GREG MOTTOLA

That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feelin...
DAISUKE MATSUZAKA

It took a lot of work with the conditioning coach, and I feel as strong as ever, and I'm going to co...
GUILLERMO CORIA

I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the text...
H.D.

I was getting a lot of good work with my wrestling up in Iowa, but I needed a more all-around game, ...
ROBBIE LAWLER

I felt better last year than I felt today. I didn't really feel it. I probably missed nine or 10 to ...
DAVID HADDAD

I'm always on top of my [talking] game, but I was just really trying to focus on getting my body whe...
FRED SMOOT

I used to be more into basketball because I have a goal at home. I would shoot hoops with my cousins...
LAWRENCE DAVIS

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I mus...
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON

That gave me confidence I could play with it. Now I'm used to it. Playing without it would be like p...
ASHLEY CAIAFA

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio...
GLORIA ALLRED

I'm at the point where I'm very comfortable with my art now and feel that I'm where I should be with...
JACQUELYN SINGER

It was rare, ... We've not seen that from him really all year. He couldn't find (the strike zone), a...
PHIL GARNER

... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER

I didn't want to lose my opportunity on the first shot, ... I didn't want to kick it out of bounds s...
MATT CLARK

I'm much more comfortable. My confidence with the puck, and away from the puck too, from the beginni...
MARK STUART

I had to back off on one lap near the end because of yellow flags, but that happened while we were o...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be i...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achi...
KATHRYN BIGELOW

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with rec...
CHAD SMITH

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular...
SHARON HORGAN

I'll be honest, my back is really just a maintenance issue. I had a few problems last year, but it's...
JIM THOME

I thought something like this wouldn't happen until maybe next season, ... I know how hard it is for...
MARCUS JOHNSON

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not g...
PAULO COELHO

I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

We started the season with a little setback because we had to have two seniors move to the setter po...
VICTORIA GONZALES

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and...
WES ANDERSON

I didn't really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I never could have considered that if I were part of a couple. Even now I'm not sure it will pay off...
BELLA DEPAULO

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on wi...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, bec...
SHAILENE WOODLEY

I was playing with the mentality of a point guard, looking to get other people to score, but I'm not...
KALANA GREENE

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...
L. FRANK BAUM

I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up wit...
SOURCE UNKNOWN

Getting to the basket and getting to the foul line, I think that's where I'm at my best.
GERALD HENDERSON

Yeah, I think it could be a lot different. This is going to be a good game tomorrow. Especially for ...
DARNELL JACKSON

It was amazing to get out here and play with her. I would have never thought that I would get to sha...
BRIANNA SCHOOLEY

I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the basket. I could fake it, but my confidence wasn't that high. Now I'm getting it because I have something to work with.

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I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the basket. I could fake it, but my confidence wasn't that high. Now I'm getting it because I have something to work with.

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