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Paul Skenes on Believing in Yourself.mp4

8 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short first-person monologue (apparently Paul Skenes) emphasizing the necessity of self-belief in baseball. Speaker argues that players who don't believe in themselves get "weeded out," advises giving yourself grace, and notes that he struggled more with confidence when hitting than when pitching.

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The people that don't believe in themselves get weeded out in this game. I really believe that. So there's no excuse to not believe in yourself. It's a losing battle if you don't believe in yourself. You just got to be objective, I think, in that you kind of give yourself grace. And also knowing that it's never as good as you think it is and it's never as bad as you think it is, I think that's important to remember, too. And I struggled with it a little bit more on the hitting side than I did the pitching side than I ever have on the pitching side in terms of, like, believing in yourself. So. But yeah, there's. Again, there's no excuse to not believe in yourself.