They're playing with a lot more confidence - there's no doubt about that. They are more match aware

In the face of layoffs, tumbling corporate profits, falling stock markets and shakier consumer confidence, no doubt remains that this legislation is needed.

I'm a big believer in confidence. There's no doubt it's going to be a tough test but we're doing well - 24 games unbeaten isn't bad, you know.

I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, ... But what confidence should we have in his ability to deal not only with a natural disaster, but with a terrorist threat in this country?

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

[But even though Spurs forward Glenn Robinson never has been a player to doubt his abilities, he said he realizes he can't expect to be as big a factor in the playoffs as he was the past few weeks.] I know deep down I'm not ready, ... This is a tough organization to come right in (and play). I've only been here for three weeks.