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Quotes About Underdog

Little kids who get picked on and bullied can relate to the Lucha Dragons, who are smaller, but they're quick and exciting and never give up.
~ Dolph Ziggler
Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak.
~ Carson Wentz
I've always been one of the smallest, if not the smallest guy on the football field.
~ Kyler Murray
It's not easy to play the big guys, especially since I'm one of the smallest guys on tour.
~ Kei Nishikori
You gotta be ready in this game. Like when Michael Bisping knocked out Luke Rockhold. I thought... everybody thought that Luke Rockhold would go out there and just smoke him and then Luke Rockhold got clipped.
~ Stephen Thompson
The story of 'Rudy' has almost transcended me. I'm the representation, but there are so many people out there that identify with it.
~ Rudy Ruettiger
Your attempt was valiant, but the fight was unfair. He was a seasoned warrior, fully armored. You were a lad with a short sword. You have a brave heart. That can be more important than size or strength.
~ Brandon Mull
First with the head, and then with the heart, that way small can beat big.
~ Bryce Courtenay
It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.
~ Bryce Courtenay
Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.
~ Terry Brooks
Anyway, Angua seemed to have taken this case personally. She always had a soft spot for the underdog. So did Vimes. You had to. Not because they were pure or noble, because they weren't. You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Post Office was the underdog, and an underdog can always find somewhere soft to bite.
~ Terry Pratchett
You beat a dozen armed men single-handed? Oh aye, sir, said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.
~ Terry Pratchett
After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.
~ Pee Wee Reese
Nobody believed when I knocked down Mark Hunt.
~ Fabricio Werdum
Too much history, he contends, is written "from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders." His People's History, by way of contrast, sides with the losers, the downtrodden, the underdog. It is a book "disrespectful of governments and respectful of people's movements of resistance." ….
~ Howard Zinn
I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.
~ Ian Fleming
I once took a city with five men and a lame goat.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.
~ Bill de Blasio
I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
~ Eugene Levy
I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.
~ Chris Rock
Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.
~ Charlie Day
I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog.
~ Studs Terkel