What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.
I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona.
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
Do I feel underrated? Yes. Does that bother me? No, not really.
I definitely feel like I'm underrated.
I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.
Managers are never appreciated when they're in the job.
I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
I think I do deserve more than 11 carries. I think I really do.
Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.
For too long, I have been overlooked. For too long, I have been disrespected. For too long, I had been too good.
I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.
I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.
I don't always feel like a valued player.
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
I have not been taken seriously as an actor.
I've never been the top dog. I've always been the underdog. And that's why I relate so much to Utah, because we're underdogs, we're overlooked, kind of thought of as an afterthought.
I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.
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.
There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.
I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.
I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work
