Success Quote by Stan Wawrinka

Wawrinka’s line cuts against the Instagram version of confidence as a mindset you can manifest on demand. In tennis, confidence isn’t a scented candle; it’s a scoreboard. “Comes with matches” is doing quiet work here: not with practice, not with pep talks, but with the bruising repetition of competition where your nerves, decision-making, and body all get audited in public. You can hit beautifully on Tuesday; on Friday, a single tight service game can reveal you were borrowing belief on credit.

The subtext is bluntly professional: athletes don’t live in the abstract, they live in feedback loops. Winning doesn’t just feel good, it rewires your risk tolerance. You swing a fraction freer, you choose the bolder pattern, you stop playing “not to lose.” Those micro-decisions are the sport. Wawrinka, a late-blooming champion who spent years in the shadow of Federer and Nadal (and later Djokovic), understands the psychological tax of repeated near-misses. His point isn’t that confidence is fake; it’s that it’s contingent. It’s earned, then reinforced, then spent again under pressure.

There’s also a subtle rejection of the “confidence first” self-help script. He’s prescribing something less glamorous and more actionable: keep playing, chase winnable reps, let the results rebuild the story you tell yourself. Confidence, in this framing, is less a feeling than a byproduct of proof. In elite sport, that’s the only kind that survives match point.