Paul George Quotes

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder.

Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak.

I love putting a chip on my shoulder. It's just more motivation to go out there and show my ability.

It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder. I always view myself as an underdog.

When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.

I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.

I've been overlooked and slighted every step of the way. I think that brings out the best in me.

Every player has a chip on their shoulder about something.

I'm a guy that always had to prove himself on every level I've played, always was the guy that was overlooked.

Great players always play with a chip on their shoulder no matter if they have a reason to or not.

I come into each and every game and every season with a chip on my shoulder.

I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if I do lose that mind-set, I want somebody to slap me in the face and say, 'Hey, pick it up and get back to the roots.'

The whole 'SmackDown' roster has a chip on its shoulder.

I like to think that every player who gets left out comes back with point to prove.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.

The edge came from the slights I've had throughout my life, the slights I have dealt with through the entirety of my life. It wasn't one day when somebody said something and that made me upset and now I'm over it. I'm not going to stop playing with an edge because that's what got me here. That's just how I play the game. I can't play any other way.

I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.