Quotes About Underdog

In 1990 I qualified to play in the World Championships for the first time. I was ranked 125-1 to win but I knew I could do it.

Third-string quarterbacks, fourth-string quarterbacks - they get their opportunities, and they shine.

The scaffolders and builders from demolition companies nearby used to play each other for 20 quid a man - the tackles were mad. I played for the local estate against them one day and we won, there was a full-scale riot. 'He's a ringer' they were saying. Half of them were drunk so I could get the ball and just run and around them - I was only 12!

My first day on SmackDown, I believe I had a speaking segment, and I went out, and I decided if I was going to come in as an underwhelming draft pick, because let's be honest - I was. No one was really excited to have me, because I didn't do these amazing things in NXT! I decided to come in under the radar and kick down the door.

The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

I'm a small guy slaying giants and I'll keep doing so.

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

Leadership almost always involves thinking and acting like the underdog. That's because leaders work to change things, and the people who are winning rarely do.

Leadership almost always involves thinking and acting like the underdog.

The last officer named was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island; a man of limited education and military experience limited to two years of peacetime militia duty, he nevertheless was destined to be the best of the lot.27

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

Hope had been in the NICU for a week before she was named. The name her parents had picked out was Allison—Allegra and Allison, for nauseating twin symmetry—but after all that transpired, they changed their minds and decided to call her Hope, no explanation needed. She was a survivor, an underdog who had prevailed;

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

I'm not the biggest guy.

I'm just a small guy.