Eric Johnson Quotes

I feel like the red-headed stepchild of Young Money.

And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

There is nothing worse than not being involved. You are sitting there thinking, 'What exactly am I? A footballer who is not playing football?' You feel a bit worthless sitting in the stands, watching all the time.

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

I guess everyone's had an experience when they felt overlooked, ditched, hurt or taken for granted. Where they felt like the only one behaving with common sense but still got the short end of the stick. We all feel like the odd one out at some point.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

At West Brom I felt very left out, not part of the team.

I'm never the romantic lead. I'm the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, "Oh sorry! I'll leave you guys alone."

I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.

I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.

I do know what it's like to be an outsider.

I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.

I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

Nobody likes to sit on the bench.