Quotes About Underdog

No one expected me to become a champion.

My favorite champions is the 1995 championship with the Rockets. We were the sixth seed without home court advantage.

You've always got to have a chip on your shoulder. No. 1, I'm a small player, so I've always had that chip on my shoulder my whole life.

As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

I always thought the best part about sports was the bigger, faster kids who were supposed to be more athletic than me - I always beat.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

You about to play an opponent who is either bigger, stronger, faster or more experienced than you. Is there any hope at all? Absolutely, because one factor is in your favor: You are the Underdog!

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.

Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New Yorkers of wealth and social position. Here was a bastard, a newcomer who had arrived as an orphaned immigrant little more than three years earlier. But he was a nova whose writing, speaking, and fighting talents had dazzled more timid men with better claims on command.

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong;

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.

Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.