Playing with confidence is a kind of cliched phrase applied to athletes in any sport at any level. Growing up, I lost count of the amount of times a coach or family member told me to, “play with confidence,” as if it was some tangible object I could wear that made me play better.
We hear confidence talked about from real people and characters in movies. We hear it applied to everything from making a shot, to shooting your shot, metaphorically speaking. If confidence were a person, it would look like Steve Harrington after he touched up his hair with Farrah Fawcett spray.
