Clint Dempsey Quotes

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.

There weren't a lot of people who believed in my abilities. But the more I grew and developed as a man, the more I believed in myself, and the harder I worked, the better I got and the more I progressed.

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

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.

I've gone through all of it: I've literally heard every single name in the book be told to me. So don't be discouraged by anyone as long as you're confident in yourself, and just keep doing what you're doing.

I think one should take criticism in one's stride and prove oneself. In fact, I would like to thank my critics as their criticism gave me the fire and passion to prove myself.

My hardest lesson has been my most fruitful, too: that when people don't believe in me, I can prove them wrong.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?'

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

I've been fortunate enough to be headstrong, to be full of self-belief, and those things have never wavered for me.