You have to be confident to be a professional athlete; and there’s no doubt that all members of the Baltimore Orioles have that gene in them. In my case I’m not a professional athlete. In fact I’m not an athlete at all – I play pick up basketball once a week.
While I tell people that it’s basketball at it’s absolute lowest level, I notice that if there’s not a certain belief in oneself playing the game you end up playing worse. In sports as is the case in life, if you start getting overly tentative you all but play into the hands of your opponents.