Quotes About Determination

If I ever felt sorry for myself, my dad and I would have this two-hour talk. He bred an underdog mentality into me from a younger age.

I've never made the cut. I think that feeds into the underdog thing more than anything else.

I've always been the underdog and underdogs don't really care for attention.

The other day, someone told me that all my life I will be telling the stories of underdogs. Their stories always appeal to me.

I've always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level - never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I've always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.

If you embrace it, I think being an underdog becomes more of an advantage than anything.

I've been the underdog a lot in the UFC and I love playing that role.

I'm always the underdog and I always win the fight.

When I'm the underdog everybody says, 'He doesn't have enough to win the fight.' After I won what do you say now?

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

In sport, the underdog does come out on top quite a bit.

My dad went far in basketball, so I just see that there are still people that are better than me. So I try to play like an underdog and I'm just trying to surpass my dad.

I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that's Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.

I just still feel like an underdog. I feel like until you're No. 1, you're chasing.

I myself have been an underdog. I never got anything easy in the film industry.

I've been under a lot of pressure in my career - fights I was the underdog or counted out in.

I've been the underdog my whole career.

My whole life, I am always the underdog.

I was always the underdog. See, I'd fight guys bigger than me. In boxing, it's not how good you are; it's how tough you are.

I've beaten a lot of guys where I've been the underdog throughout my career. And, I've made a career out of and I've taken a lot of pleasure in proving doubters wrong. And, you do that enough times and you start to believe in your abilities.

If anything I love when I'm the underdog. It gives me an opportunity to fight back stronger and show people, 'Ok, if you want to be on the side of the other person, then I'm going to make them pay for that mistake. Their body is going to pay the cost for you choosing them.' So if anything, that always lights a fire for me.

I've been an underdog my whole career.

I like to be the underdog.

Northeast Ohio is always an underdog.