Harriet Harman Quotes

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

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

I'm going to keep proving people wrong because I have a lot of people to prove wrong, a lot of doubters.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'

I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I'm not right for a part, and really fight for it. There's something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.

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.

I think it's the same for everyone in any walk of life - if people put you down, you want to prove a point.

It's a compliment that people think that I'm a good player. I remember when people didn't think I was good. And I remember being a rookie coming into the league with a big chip on my shoulder trying to prove myself.

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 think towards the end of my career, I'm the man. But right now, I've still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I'm not going to believe the hype.

I haven't done nothing in this league. Every day I come into practice or come into a game, I'm just trying to prove myself.

Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.

I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew... Looking back now, I'm glad I didn't hit puberty until later.

There's a lot of people that hate on me, but I'm really willing to prove 'em wrong.

You always feel like you've got something to prove, whether it be to yourself or somebody else. I can think of plenty of people along the way telling me I'll be nothing, working at McDonald's, doing things like that. The whole time, you're just trying to prove them wrong.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

I've never gone into a season thinking I didn't have something to prove.

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.