Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."

Great performers welcome pressure.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.