Quotes About Underdog

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

I remember I was a dark horse at Miss Universe. No one saw Miss India coming from a mile and suddenly there she was!

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I love having the ball with two minutes left, down a touchdown. That's when I'm right in the zone... I'm a Catholic and a quarterback. Those are the two things that really shape my life. I'd much rather be the underdog than the favorite any day of the week.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

But what is a slingshot against a 220 pound male with a sword?

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

I thought the Mike Tyson story was beautiful and it drew me in. He was bullied, a small kid who started knocking out giants.

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

I was a scrawny, knock-kneeded little waif at seven with tangles in my hair and no acting training (in fact, with little formal schooling at all), but Peter took me on. He'd later say that it was my scrappy attitude that got me the job.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

When I was 15, I fought a guy who was 26 and he was 20-0, undefeated. It was a way for my dad to show me that I was better than I thought. I ended up beating the brakes off this 26-year-old guy. After the fight, the announcer asked my opponent how it felt. He answered, 'I wonder why I stepped in the ring with that boy.'

The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say 'amazingly' because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

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

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.