Quotes About Underdog

Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.

It's nice when little teams win.

The film 'Harjeeta' is based on the remarkable true story of a underdog, who overcomes his circumstances, fights against all odds and at end, comes out as a winner.

Michael Chiesa has written me off as many other men have written me off. As the Vegas oddsmakers have written me off, as the UFC has time and time again and time again written me off. As they have written me off to not be the Ultimate Fighter winner.

There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.

Because I was a bit smaller than the other kids, my dad knew that winning the ball in the air wasn't going to be easy for me.

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.

We need a better guide to facing giants—and there is no better place to start that journey than with the epic confrontation between David and Goliath three thousand years ago in the Valley of Elah.

David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger.

Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom.

That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.

David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.

The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David.

Goliath was blind to his approach—and then he was down, too big and slow and blurry-eyed to comprehend the way the tables had been turned. All these years, we've been telling these kinds of stories wrong. David and Goliath is about getting them right.

It is easier and far more satisfying to retreat and compose yourself after every score—and execute perfectly choreographed plays—than to swarm about, arms flailing, and contest every inch of the basketball court. Underdog strategies

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.

the fact of being an underdog can change people in ways that we often fail to appreciate:

Just under a third of the time, the weaker country wins.

the question that my book leaves us with: If David beat Goliath—if, in fact, Davids beat Goliaths all the time, if adversity is a great teacher, if resources ultimately become self-defeating—why doesn't that change the way we make sense of the world?

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday.