Quotes About Underdog

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

We don't speak at night anymore, but she's left me her legacy nonetheless--a love for the sea and the smoothness of pearls, an appreciation of music and words, sympathy for the underdog, and a disregard for boundaries.

I've been fighting for Davids versus the Goliaths for 18 years, my entire career.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

There's something inherently British about siding with the underdog. While comedy needs victims, it doesn't need to treat them in a brutal way - we're kind of lauding them.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

As you know, I'm all about victory for the underdog.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.

Kit Darling has become a celebrity. An underdog's hero. Everyone is rooting for her." "Charge her with what?" asks Ben. "Fraud? Extortion? Obstruction of justice? Staging a false scene—isn't that a criminal offense?" Renata says, "Usually a false scene relates to falsifying evidence in order to obscure or obfuscate a real homicide investigation.

Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog!

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

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.

The Left, which dominates the media, the arts, and most of intellectual life in the West, has rendered criticism of Christianity and Zionism acceptable, even laudable, but criticism of Islam unacceptable. Why has the Left done this? Because the enemy (radical Islam) of my enemy (America and Israel) is my friend, and because the Muslim world is regarded as the underdog vis-à-vis powerful America and Israel, and the Left supports what it perceives as the underdog.

I want to encourage the non-star, low-profile film, and maybe we've got a chance.

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.

As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

I've had plenty of fights where the guy's virtually unknown and very tough. I mean a lot.

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.

Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.

Some OPD lawyers were zealously committed to defending the poor and oppressed, and for them the job was not a stepping-stone to another career. Regardless of how little they earned or how tight their budgets were, they thrived on the lonely independence of their work and the satisfaction of protecting the underdog.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.