Quotes About Adversity

You learn a lot about yourself when things aren't going well. It's always good to be the underdog.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.

I've been an underdog all my life.

If I'm being honest, yes, I've always been into the underdog instead of the golden boy or guy with the easy life. It doesn't seem that dramatic from a storied perspective to play someone that has it easy or is incredibly normal.

I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.

Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

To be honest, it's more fun being the underdog.

All the time I am the underdog.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

I've been the underdog before. It's a place I like to be.

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

I love being the underdog sometimes.

I've always been an underdog.

I perform better when I'm the underdog and everyone is against me. I thrive on that.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

I always consider myself to be the underdog.

I'm used to being the underdog.

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.