Confidence is believing in yourself and knowing that you can achieve whatever you want to do. Must of the time people are not confident in what they can do and that usually prevents them from doing it. Confidence sometimes lets us do things that we never thought that we could achieve. As an example, Once me and my soccer team went on a tournament to Indiana. We came into the tournament with being a lower rank in the state. The teams we were playing were better than us at skills, size, speed,and shooting, plus they were a higher rank than us in the state. But my coach told us to to be confident in our abilities to compete. The next morning all of my teammates came in the lobby for breakfast, and all of us encouraged each other to play well. When we got on the field for our warm up we were not afraid of the other team, we didn't make comments to each other about losing, we didn't talk down on our team that maybe weren't as good as some people that, and might cause us to lose. We all were positive and optimistic about the seventy minutes ahead of us. During that game we beat the other team 1-0 in penalties. After that game I did not reflect on the match I just celebrated. But because we had courage during that game we succeeded . The next game we played we tied. During that game we …show more content…
In warmups for that game I heard the other team saying things like if they tied and beat a team that we both lost to how are we going to beat them. Also they said other things like I am just done with this I want to go home. When we got on the field to start the game the other team had their heads down and didn't look like they wanted to be here. On the other hand my we were unafraid and ready to go. In that game we beat the other team 3-0. In the end of the tournament we had gotten beat in a tie breaker of goal differential, by one