Quotes About Underdog

We're not quite mainstage material. We're more like outhouse material!

'Rocky' I tend to watch through to the end every time.

I have watched 'Rocky' many times.

I'm the Rocky of MMA.

I felt like I lived my movie, my 'Rocky' movie. So that was cool.

I've rooted all my life for a marginal team.

I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

Goodie Mob is my passion, the core of me, the fight, the struggle. I'm still as much of an underdog as I ever was, and my music is still as anti-establishment as it ever was. I want to satisfy that rebel side. It's not null and void. I'm a whole being, and I'm just coming back full circle.

Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

Nobody wants to lose to bloody Rochdale.

For a lot of people, I was a below-average guy who broke through a wall.

I am used to coming in second and then all of the sudden finishing in first because nobody expected me to do it. Kind of like David and Goliath, you know. I'm not the giant.

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they.

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

Kate approved of the child's father, and so did she. Kate all her life had championed the underdog, and so therefore did she. And what more oppressed puppy in all the world was she likely to find than this one?

When I fought against Fedor, no one picked me. But then afterwards, they ask 'Who is Fabricio Werdum?'

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.