Swagger Quotations

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.

The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.

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Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

More than anything, we got a little swagger back up front. I think everybody can count on us and believe in us more. You're only as good as your last performance and we capped it off with 10 wins.

Now, we can have some swagger in these late-inning games because we have done it before. We have a reference point.

New Mexico ended up punching us in the mouth but our guys didn't collapse. Every week it's just gotten better and better. Nobody has been satisfied. Going into Howard there is just a confidence and swagger about us.

When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.

Knowing it was Senior Day, Nicolle was emotional in the locker room before the game, but after she hit some shots and got her rhythm, she got that swagger that had been missing for the last few games. When she hits shots from the perimeter like she did today, it makes us a better team.

From Day 1 he said we're going to be tough. We're going to play nasty, we're going to play with that swagger and good things will happen.

I feel very good that our girls are going to show up and play tuesday night. I think they have a little bit of a swagger to them right now. They aren't cocky, but they are confident.

Chris Leak was on. He had that swagger and made the right decisions. It helped that he didn't have two or three guys in his face, too.

We're playing with a lot of confidence. Everybody has their swagger back. We're having fun.

He did allow himself to be shown hammering purposefully, with a jejune combination of cowboy swagger and yuppie self-consciousness.

He has a little more of a swagger when he plays against me. I hope that he can become more consistent and take that to the court against whomever he is playing.

He's a lot more confident now. In fact, he's very confident. He's got a swagger about him now. He knows he's going to get the job done, and I think he's going to shock some people.

I feel good right now. I'm getting my swagger back. ... That's very important, because if I don't have it, I'll get beat around like I did the first couple of games.

He does all the little things -- taking charges and defending guys. He's very good and he improved throughout the year. You can just see it in his confidence and swagger on the floor. He knows what makes him a good player.

He has that confidence, that swagger with him. He doesn't feel like a little young guy out of place anymore. He feels welcome. He knows that, that's his spot and he's a part of this franchise.

He has that swagger on and off the field. He's different in his attitude, how he carries himself, what he says and how he says it. What it shows me is that he won't back down.

He has the confidence and swagger to back it up and really is our most competitive guy on the track.

He has the skill and all of that. He's probably one of the fastest guys out there. He has that swagger already.

He got his swagger back. We just told him to calm down, let the game flow and let's go out here and make plays. Every time he threw it to us, we made plays. We said it was going to be a total 360-degree change, and it was.

He doesn't have much street left in him; he is one of the nicest and most appreciative people. About the only place he has some of that street and swagger is in his game. And that is a good thing. He doesn't get rattled and relishes every challenge.

Keep us on the back-burner. We won't lose our swagger at all, because when you put that food on the back-burner, it's just simmering and it tastes better. When you got that food on the front burner, that's the one you're paying attention to the most, and that's the one that might burn. We're on that back-burner.

Swagger goes hand in hand with playing well. We have a lot of experience here. We're not looking for these guys to bounce back and have MVP years, but to be productive and have a year close to the previous year.

Swagger is not something you can buy, nor is it something that you can try, and if you don't have it at all, there is no point in trying to lie; everyone can tell. Swag is something that only a Swag Sensei can sell; now most of us hand it out for free, but we just cant hand it out to everyone, because some people don't know how to use it, and will abuse it, and still end up losing it.

Pat's impact is that you can't just double Kevin anymore and single-block the other guy. Pat gives us some swagger against the run. He's determined that no one will run the ball on us because of him. Guys buy into that and start having high expectations for themselves, and I think that helps the whole defense.

I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.

Nate has always had a swagger, but I guess you guys are starting to notice it. I'm probably No. 1 or No. 2 in the swagger department. It's confidence because we work hard to be good, and we aren't afraid to say that.

I was kind of angry. People think they can come in here and bully us, and they're talking bad about the team. My dad called me and said they were making fun of us on TV. I didn't like that. I needed to go out there and get my swagger back.

Last game, I told (Williams) and Domonique Foxworth, I said, 'You guys have something as rookies that I didn't have when I was a rookie, and that's called confidence,' ... They have that swagger to them where they're not really intimidated.

I think they had the swagger we usually carry.

I think they had the swagger we usually carry. It seemed like we got frustrated, and we let down instead of getting fired up and trying to get it back.

I think they had the swagger we usually carry. We didn't match their intensity. We weren't fatigued physically, but we bought into fatigue mentally. I think they were more successful because we didn't have the heart and determination to stop them.

Our swagger is totally different. We have confidence. You can see it in their kids' faces. It's taken awhile to come out.

I think since we've been practicing and gotten over the Auburn game and put that behind us, we've gotten a little swagger and some more confidence in ourselves. We're playing against the best defense in the country every day in practice.

It gives us a different swagger walking on the court.

I think we have lost some confidence. We'll try to concentrate on a good week of practice and get the confidence back and a bit of swagger back.

I think we've got a little swagger coming in here. We just showed them we can do it and it's not impossible with our team. We came in and we'll lay it all on the line and see how it pans out.

I think we're starting to get our swagger back.

It came down to me wanting to go into the league and be effective and walk in with a kind of confidence and swagger that I am ready to play at a high level.

We have the swagger to prove to the conference that we're good enough to win it. We feel like we can be the Duke of the mid-majors.

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

I was really nervous. . . . You sort of trust your swing and let it go. We had to have it. Hopefully, it's going to give us some swagger back, get us some confidence back. Miami just physically beat us, we had to get some confidence back.

We needed to get our swagger back. We kept saying this week we were going to focus on a way to finish. That was the goal, to make plays and finish off games.

Without a doubt, the swagger level goes up, ... Sam Cassell has been talking trash as soon as he came here. That's what we need. We need somebody that's confident like that, saying, hey, jump on our bandwagon or get left behind. We haven't had that.

That's the kind of swagger we're playing with.

That was huge. Richard had a little bit of his swagger back tonight.

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We're a run-oriented offense. And when you can't run the ball, you get frustrated. We had some frustration early on. But we're getting the swagger back.

Today, we can have a little swagger about ourselves. We've been saying since the beginning of the season that we were going to be a good team. But we're just getting to the place where our expectations were.

We came here today trying to rekindle our swagger and play like we know how we can play.

The reason why we're doing this (resting starters, etc.) is to make the overall team better. But you still want that swagger back. You want that feeling back. I think we can accomplish that with the guys who are going to play, but it's still fun to have the guys you always play with, and get that groove back.

We just weren't as assertive as we were against the man defense. We really didn't get that swagger back until about halfway through the third quarter when Grogan hit an open jumper, and we were fine from there.

We knew it was going to take time to mesh. We're starting to get our swagger back.

It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.

Until we regain a defensive swagger we are going to continue to struggle. It's a mystery to me why we have lost our confidence to play defensive with intensity. Letting another team shoot nearly 60 percent from the field is a tragedy.

We grew up today. We took a stride in the right direction. That's something we'd been missing - that attitude, that killer instinct, that swagger and that confidence that you need to win games this time of year.

What is fragile so often is confidence, and that's the thing. Prior to the Olympic break we really thought we had that swagger back, that we were going to find a way. We will beat you 6-5. There was, I thought, a real confidence about us. Then we take the break and we come back and it's 14-4 against in two games on home ice against teams that are chasing us. So that's the concern: that it is a fragile situation, and the only way to get through it is to be mentally tough about it. We have to stick together as a team.

At the beginning of the year, we didn't have a lot of confidence at point guard. You need a point guard with some swagger and he's brought that confidence to us.

The tough-talking swagger of the kind we're hearing from people in Congress who want enforcement only is not a political winner. It won't solve problems, and it won't win votes.

The swagger is gone from this White House.

I've watched Nate develop, and he's developed real fast. His swagger and confidence are really what lifts him up and gets him going. He has a great mental game. He doesn't make mistakes at all. And he has just made some spectacular plays.

Without a doubt, the swagger level goes up, ... Sam Cassell has been talking trash as soon as he came here. That's what we need. We need somebody that's confident like that, saying, hey, jump on our bandwagon or get left behind. We haven't had that.

Once we get our little Trojan swagger in the game and we know we have the support of the other 63 guys that are traveling, when we rally around each other, we feel like nothing can stop us.

Coach Bell has been pushing us to develop a swagger and we felt we had that today when we got here. We wanted to come out and show everyone why we were the No. 1 (seed).

They still walk with that same swagger and there's still that same aura about them.

There's unity, camaraderie, getting our focus with each other. We're not just sitting back. We're going after the quarterback. It's feeling a little more comfortable. We got our swagger back. We're playing like we know how to play.

There's just a little bit of a swagger when you start to win games. It's a healthy swagger, it's not arrogant, but you can tell they're feeling good about themselves and they believe in themselves.

This is the biggest win I've ever been a part of. Louisville came out with a swagger in the second half. But I knew we could win if we just made some plays. About the end of their third quarter, their offensive linemen just started laying down.

You really need to get your swagger back.

Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back.

In many ways the industry has been on the defensive. I'm doing a little bit of a cheerleader thing. Newspapers need to get their swagger back.

After the success they have had against us in recent years, we wanted to make a statement today and get our swagger back.

I'm tall with broad shoulders, and therefore, I like clothes with a bit of a swagger - mannish clothes that you can wear with a lot of feminine, sweet tops. I put my own looks together - a favourite coat, a bit of vintage, a bit of high street.

I'm really happy with our consistency. We're playing sound hockey. It's a confidence thing. We have our swagger back.

The biggest thing is to have a swagger when you take the field. When you're not going well, you have to change something -- the biggest thing is the way you carry yourself. You have to walk like you belong with the best, go up to the plate like you know you belong with the best. That's swagger.

Everybody's confident. We've got a little bit of swagger even though we've lost our last two.

Once he starts hitting, you just set screens for him and he does the rest. When he hits a big shot, he gets that swagger and you just know it's gonna happen.

Not an arrogance, because that gets away from you. The swagger that says, 'You may beat us, but you better come out swinging.' But it is not his swagger, it is our swagger, and he has to get everybody believing. 'Can (Washington) help me be that way?'

They came out of there with a swagger I haven't seen before, and they've kept it all week. Our goal is for us to hit 24 routines and be close enough to put pressure on Georgia when they're on the last event on the balance beam.

He stood for something they loved. They admired the swagger about him.

He's an impact player, one that's going to the Hall of Fame. Those guys have a swagger to them with their presence.

You want to go into the playoffs winning and get that swagger about yourself. If you go into the playoffs losing, you don't feel that great about yourself and teams look at the things you didn't do well and try to key on those things and make you look bad. You want to build up as the season progresses along.

You want to go to the playoffs winning, so you can get that swagger about yourself.

The freshmen played great. They soaked up everything around them and took time to evaluate the other team. They played with a lot of swagger and hunger.

I have a natural swagger.

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It's obvious that Chris Quinn is such a key for us. He's just got to play with that swagger and the rest of the guys are confident. So is his coach.

Then the wheels on the bus fell off. We just never got our swagger back.

That loss took away a lot of the swagger that we had coming into the new year.

They are both huge, but I think our main focus is Michigan State. Considering they're both on the road, we need to be as focused on getting the job done and prepare very well this week in practice. Then we need to go in with confidence and have a swagger about ourselves that we're going to win.

We have a certain swagger to us. We have a lot of confidence. We just have an attitude about us right now that we don't think we're going to lose.