Brooks Koepka Quotes

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

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.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

In fights when I've had the odds stacked against me, I definitely perform better because it's like a challenge to me - and I always like a challenge.

I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.

I'm always going to play with chips on my shoulder - with something to prove.

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.

I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

It's fun down there to actually go up against a 7-footer and you know you're undersized and you know people are telling you that you can't guard this guy, you can't do that. I take it as a challenge.

I was an underdog my whole career, but I knew I had the ability to compete with those guys.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

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 know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

I always want to take on the giants.

I've kind of been doubted my whole life. I use that as fuel to continue to push every single day.

I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.

A lot of people underestimated me, and I'm used to that.