Shannon Sharpe Quotes

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

My whole career, when I was in Croatia, people questioned me, saying I wouldn't make it, that I wasn't good enough because I wasn't big and strong.

All my life, people have been underestimating me.

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

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.

Our enemies have always made the same mistake. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.

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

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

I've been a guy that everyone has counted out over the years as an undersized four-man. I've always been doubted.

The reality is that I've been counted out for a very long time and people continue to underestimate me and I continue to overperform.

People have been counting me out since Day One.

I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

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

I don't get why people look at me the way they do. They doubted me the first time I became a world champion. Then, I fought Sadam Ali, who was a boogeyman in the division at the time, and won my second title and they were still doubting me.

There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.

People looking down, looking down, don't think a guy like my stature can be an All-Star. And every night I try to step out there and prove them otherwise.

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

I'm just ready to go out there and prove to everybody that I'm not as small as everybody says I am.

All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.

Everyone said I would be a second-round pick or undrafted guy - that's all I heard coming to the draft - but I had a higher faith. I knew I was way better than that, better than how people pegged me.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

The reason why I called it 'I Told You' is because I wanted to show people that I have been doubted, and I have been in the face of adversity. Coming out of that situation, this is my 'I told you' moment.

Nobody really knows how I fight or what I'm capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out and prove I belong.