Quotes About Underdogs

There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.

I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.

Iowa is especially critical for underdog and cash-strapped campaigns, because the caucus system relies on grassroots organizing, enabling candidates with time for retail politicking to beat better-funded rivals. So underdogs usually seize on the state.

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

Sweden usually don't play good against the poor teams. We like being the underdogs.

I've always liked underdogs who started out not so iconic but then really took off.

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.

I always root for the underdogs. That's my whole thing.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

The Irish, being underdogs, necessarily knew more than their rulers. Theirs was the perennial problem of quickwitted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators

There's still anti-Semitism everywhere, and unfortunately, what has happened with our people no longer being the underdogs in this region, peoples' perception of Israel has changed dramatically.

Einstein's pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racism, and a predilection toward socialism.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

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I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

So the insurgency was born in a perfect storm of American errors--not establishing order; not providing the semblance of any government; confirming to the Sunnis who had once lorded it over Iraq's Shia majority that they were officially the underdogs; and throwing hundreds of thousands of soldiers onto the streets in an economy where the jobless rate was around 50 percent, while simultaneously ensuring that there was an unlimited supply of weaponry at hand for those angry young men.

some of the most inspiring stories of faith come from those often considered "losers" by the rest of the world.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Even if we were big underdogs I always felt anything could happen. Often enough, I was right. That's also why I never assumed we were going to win.