Rocky Fielding Quotes

In fights when I've had the odds stacked against me, I definitely perform better because it's like a challenge to me - and I always like a challenge.

I always try to find something where I feel like I'm kind of the underdog and kind of put that little chip on my shoulder.

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

I love having the ball with two minutes left, down a touchdown. That's when I'm right in the zone... I'm a Catholic and a quarterback. Those are the two things that really shape my life. I'd much rather be the underdog than the favorite any day of the week.

I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.

Under pressure is something I thrive on.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

I liked coaching in an underdog situation.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

The greater the pressure and expectation, the more I relish the opportunity.

I love being put into situations which are competitive and tough and challenging.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

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.

Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.