Steve Nash Quotes

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

I think everybody is always selling me short, and then I always prove them wrong.

It's good that people are underestimating me. I'm the guy from Down Under, and I'm going to show them what's up.

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

To be underestimated is my biggest motivation.

I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

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.

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

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

Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.

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

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder. I always view myself as an underdog.

Everywhere I've gone, basketball-wise, I've been the underdog and underrated guy.

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

People have been counting me out since Day One.

I'm always going to play with chips on my shoulder - with something to prove.

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 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.

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.

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.

I've been the underdog my whole career.

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

There's no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I've done. I just kept persisting with it.