John Kasich Quotes

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

It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

My whole life people underrated me.

No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

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

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

I'm a guy that always had to prove himself on every level I've played, always was the guy that was overlooked.

I feel like every game is an opportunity to prove myself as a guy who is kind of underrated.

I've been under-estimated myself quite often, and in some ways I quite enjoy it.

I've been the underdog my whole career.

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

But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.

If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.

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

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read - I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.