Shannon Sharpe holds the view that players who express high confidence and bravado are often misunderstood as lacking a game to back it up, but he argues that such belief is essential for elite athlet

“I'm assuming that they don't like that, but how do you not want a player to feel the way he feels? How do you not want a player that believes in himself and his skill set and what he's done and worked his ass off to get to? Uh, that could be the only thing, but that that can't be a bad thing”