Jaime Harrison Quotes

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

I've been the underdog my whole career.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

My whole career's been an underdog's.

Nothing really comes easy to you when you're under-recruited, you're undersized, you're undervalued. It's a situation where you have to be better than the bigger guys.

I was one of those guys who wasn't supposed to make it in this league.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

I've been an underdog all my life.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.

There's a lot of guys out there that can play at this level, and sometimes they might be discouraged because they come from a small school or a tough situation.

I'd rather be the underdog than anything.

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

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.