Shannon Purser Quotes

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

For too long, I have been overlooked. For too long, I have been disrespected. For too long, I had been too good.

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

No one ever recognizes me.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

No one ever takes my side.

I hate being ignored.

I've always felt unclaimed.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.