Adam Thielen Quotes

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

I like to see people doubt me.

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

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

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 always want to think of myself as an underdog.

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 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 think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

When people doubt me, I love it.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

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

If I see a fan talking down on my resume or another fighter, it just motivates me to go out there and prove them wrong and fight the fighters that they say will beat me or that will give me trouble in the ring. They ain't going to never really give you no credit, no matter what you do.

I want to beat people who people think I can't beat.

Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.

I always try to find something where I feel like I'm kind of the underdog and kind of put that little chip on my shoulder.

When people doubt me, I want to prove them wrong.

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.

When somebody says I can't do something, it motivates me to do it.

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

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.