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Quotes About Competition

A lot of times you go to a fight and the crowd will be for a certain fighter who is the favourite but if the underdog shows he has a chance they sometimes even swing to side of the underdog.
~ Michael Buffer
Everybody wants to watch the underdog win.
~ Misha Green
I just still feel like an underdog. I feel like until you're No. 1, you're chasing.
~ Xander Schauffele
Look, when we go as favourites, then it's a problem, but if we go as underdogs then other teams feel the danger, so I think being underdogs is good for us and eases the pressure.
~ Sarfaraz Ahmed
I'm used to playing the underdog role and the favorite.
~ Ryan Bader
Being the underdog, for me, is not a problem. I kind of like it. But when you were on the top, and then you're not even in the top 10, this is horrible.
~ Andrei Arlovski
Never underestimate opponents.
~ Bobby Riggs
I have loved cricket my whole life, from playing in the garden as a child, and will never underestimate how special it is to pull on an England shirt.
~ Alastair Cook
I don't underestimate anybody and I think Morales is capable of giving a good fight.
~ Marcos Maidana
Players can underestimate the Premier League.
~ Edgar Davids
I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.
~ John Roos
You must never underestimate your opposition.
~ John Scarlett
You cannot underestimate any team that has qualified for a semi-final.
~ Jupp Heynckes
Don't ever underestimate Mike Gundy throwing the ball with his quarterbacks.
~ Lee Corso
I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.
~ Cheryl Cole
I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
~ Dan Wheldon
I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.
~ Bobby Riggs
It's a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy - they're not on their full game if they underestimate you.
~ Joanna Coles
I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
~ Viswanathan Anand
When you come to my show, it's like a no-holds-barred, underground Royal Rumble.
~ Travis Scott
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
~ Jonas Gahr Store
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
~ Irvine Welsh
Wrestling ultimately comes down to what happens when the bell rings, and it comes down to athleticism, storytelling, and characters - and what we're doing in 'Lucha Underground' is the highest-quality wrestling out there.
~ John Morrison
I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.
~ Austin Aries