Kenny Stills Quotes

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

I play with a chip on my shoulder always, I feel like people don't always give me credit for my skills and talents and that's just the way it is. I also don't care too much, I don't feel like I'm crazy disrespected. I have a chip on my shoulder at all times.

My whole career, I've been an underdog, I've been underestimated. Therefore, I've had a chip on my shoulder my entire career. Being drafted in the second round when you think you're supposed to be in the first round, a lottery pick, the chip grows bigger. And you have more to prove.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

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

I've always enjoyed being... I guess you would call it the underdog.

Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

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.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.

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

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.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

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?'

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

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.

Having people doubt you is what gives you that fire in your belly.

I hear all the critics, man. I hear them saying 'He's done.' I hear them saying 'He can't.' I hear all that. That keeps me going.