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Underdog Quotes By Kevin Jorgeson

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset. — Kevin Jorgeson

Underdog Quotes By Mark Philippoussis

I'm the underdog, but know what I'm capable of. — Mark Philippoussis

Underdog Quotes By Bill De Blasio

I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail. — Bill De Blasio

Underdog Quotes By Katie Hoff

I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice. — Katie Hoff

Underdog Quotes By Platon

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal. — Platon

Underdog Quotes By Criss Jami

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. — Criss Jami

Underdog Quotes By David Pietrusza

It came down to so many factors: an underdog who refused to surrender, a presumed victor who refused to fight, disgruntled Democrats - on the left and right - who, by deserting their party, merely strengthened it, and fearful Republican farmers, who in the end, proved more farmer than Republican. — David Pietrusza

Underdog Quotes By Asa Larsson

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'. — Asa Larsson

Underdog Quotes By Jen Hatmaker

The world knows about our Jesus. They know about His poverty and love of the underdog. They know He told His followers to care for the poor and to share. They've heard about His radical economic theories and revolutionary redistribution concepts. They might not understand the nuances of His divinity or the various shades of His theology, but they know He was a friend of the oppressed. — Jen Hatmaker

Underdog Quotes By Lily James

Ultimately, 'Cinderella' is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it. — Lily James

Underdog Quotes By Laura Anne Gilman

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power. — Laura Anne Gilman

Underdog Quotes By Kristen Bell

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

Underdog Quotes By Mindy Kaling

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog. — Mindy Kaling

Underdog Quotes By Markus Zusak

He's fighting the world." And now, I watch as the underdog in the middle of the circle fights on and stands and falls and returns to his haunches and feet and fights on again. He fights on, no matter how hard he hits the ground. He gets up. Some people cheer him. Others laugh now and rubbish him.
Feeling comes out of me.
I watch.
My eyes swell, and burn.
"Can he win?"
I ask it, and now, I too cannot take my eyes off the boy in the circle. — Markus Zusak

Underdog Quotes By Harry S. Truman

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes. — Harry S. Truman

Underdog Quotes By Linda Hunt

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself. — Linda Hunt

Underdog Quotes By Martina Hingis

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

Underdog Quotes By Micah Miller

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! — Micah Miller

Underdog Quotes By Woody Hayes

It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes

Underdog Quotes By Terry Pratchett

Anyway, Angua seemed to have taken this case personally. She always had a soft spot for the underdog.
So did Vimes. You had to. Not because they were pure or noble, because they weren't. You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs. — Terry Pratchett

Underdog Quotes By Curtis Tyrone Jones

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Underdog Quotes By Shane Koyczan

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them. — Shane Koyczan

Underdog Quotes By Vikas Swarup

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother. — Vikas Swarup

Underdog Quotes By David Wright

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

Underdog Quotes By Janet Weiss

You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs. — Janet Weiss

Underdog Quotes By Hany Abu-Assad

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog. — Hany Abu-Assad

Underdog Quotes By Mindy Kaling

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. — Mindy Kaling

Underdog Quotes By Lauren Baratz-Logsted

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Underdog Quotes By Grace Paley

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. — Grace Paley

Underdog Quotes By Malcolm Gladwell

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted. — Malcolm Gladwell

Underdog Quotes By Jonah Hill

It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life. — Jonah Hill

Underdog Quotes By Torron-Lee Dewar

While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be? — Torron-Lee Dewar

Underdog Quotes By Derek Drouin

It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you. — Derek Drouin

Underdog Quotes By Jim O'Heir

I've always loved the underdog characters. — Jim O'Heir

Underdog Quotes By CeeLo Green

Goodie Mob is my passion, the core of me, the fight, the struggle. I'm still as much of an underdog as I ever was, and my music is still as anti-establishment as it ever was. I want to satisfy that rebel side. It's not null and void. I'm a whole being, and I'm just coming back full circle. — CeeLo Green

Underdog Quotes By Michio Kaku

Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And type-three consciousness is simulating the future. And type-three consciousness, only humans have this ability to see far into the future. — Michio Kaku

Underdog Quotes By Bill Vaughan

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win. — Bill Vaughan

Underdog Quotes By Dean Buonomano

Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the past, present, and future as fundamentally distinct, as the brain makes decisions in the present, based on the memories of the past, to enhance our well being in the future. But despite its intuitive appeal, presentism is the underdog theory in physics and philosophy. — Dean Buonomano

Underdog Quotes By Eric Bachmann

I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain. — Eric Bachmann

Underdog Quotes By Gerard Way

We've always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we'll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don't look to go round it. We just bust straight through. — Gerard Way

Underdog Quotes By Steve Nash

I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness. — Steve Nash

Underdog Quotes By Rip Torn

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. — Rip Torn

Underdog Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country. — Mahatma Gandhi

Underdog Quotes By Tsitsi Dangarembga

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. — Tsitsi Dangarembga

Underdog Quotes By Joss Whedon

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful ... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows.
They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me.
I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary. — Joss Whedon

Underdog Quotes By Malcolm Gladwell

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 — Malcolm Gladwell

Underdog Quotes By Mindy Kaling

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not. — Mindy Kaling

Underdog Quotes By Edward M. Hallowell

A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and conservative on the other. As much as we may be a country of mavericks and entrepreneurs, we are also a country of finger waggers and name-callers. As much as we may be a country of compassion for the underdog, we are also a country that believes in self-reliance. — Edward M. Hallowell

Underdog Quotes By David Brooks

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

Underdog Quotes By Malcolm Gladwell

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. — Malcolm Gladwell

Underdog Quotes By Sy Montgomery

It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog. — Sy Montgomery

Underdog Quotes By Alexis Davis

Being an underdog is my lucky charm — Alexis Davis

Underdog Quotes By Michael Franti

I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am. — Michael Franti

Underdog Quotes By Kate Bernheimer

The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading. — Kate Bernheimer

Underdog Quotes By Tyler Perry

I'm very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I'm all for the underdog, so I'd like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst. — Tyler Perry

Underdog Quotes By John Hawkes

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. — John Hawkes

Underdog Quotes By Jane Addams

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. — Jane Addams

Underdog Quotes By Joe R. Lansdale

It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position. — Joe R. Lansdale

Underdog Quotes By Phil Keoghan

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds. — Phil Keoghan

Underdog Quotes By Jason Chaffetz

I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog. — Jason Chaffetz

Underdog Quotes By Jason Reitman

I've always had an underdog perspective. — Jason Reitman

Underdog Quotes By Dennis Prager

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

Underdog Quotes By James Stewart

I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully. — James Stewart

Underdog Quotes By Kayla Krantz

The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change. — Kayla Krantz

Underdog Quotes By Studs Terkel

I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog. — Studs Terkel

Underdog Quotes By Jason Blum

I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog. — Jason Blum

Underdog Quotes By Chuck Wendig

This isn't some kind of inspirational story. Some scrappy, ragtag underdog tale, some pugilistic match where we're the goodhearted gladiator who brings down the oppressive regime that put him in the arena. They get to have that narrative. We are the ones who enslaved whole worlds full of alien inhabitants. We are the ones who built something called a Death Star under the leadership of a decrepit old goblin who believed in the 'dark side' of some ancient, insane religion. — Chuck Wendig

Underdog Quotes By Girl Talk

I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs. — Girl Talk

Underdog Quotes By George Steinbrenner

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. — George Steinbrenner

Underdog Quotes By Mia Freedman

Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention ... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations. — Mia Freedman

Underdog Quotes By Jessica Hagedorn

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. — Jessica Hagedorn

Underdog Quotes By Fred Durst

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. — Fred Durst

Underdog Quotes By Jason Blum

But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting. — Jason Blum

Underdog Quotes By Donald Trump

I always want to think of myself as an underdog. — Donald Trump

Underdog Quotes By Pink

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

Underdog Quotes By Kangana Ranaut

I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles. — Kangana Ranaut

Underdog Quotes By Shaun White

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog. — Shaun White

Underdog Quotes By Jim Butcher

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

Underdog Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic. — Marilyn Monroe

Underdog Quotes By Stephen Vincent Benet

The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Underdog Quotes By Doseone

I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity. — Doseone

Underdog Quotes By James McAvoy

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film. — James McAvoy

Underdog Quotes By Jenny Han

Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog. — Jenny Han

Underdog Quotes By Curtis Jackson

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top. — Curtis Jackson

Underdog Quotes By Jay Baruchel

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. — Jay Baruchel

Underdog Quotes By Jennifer Lawrence

Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never get made. I don't know who is behind those decisions. It's like you just have to doodle something on a page about the underdog who finally gets the girl and the film gets made. — Jennifer Lawrence

Underdog Quotes By Zooey Deschanel

In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type. — Zooey Deschanel

Underdog Quotes By H.L. Mencken

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. — H.L. Mencken

Underdog Quotes By Matthias Schoenaerts

I love being the underdog. — Matthias Schoenaerts

Underdog Quotes By Malcolm Gladwell

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

Underdog Quotes By Brian Greene

We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest
the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest
finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting
bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest
the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies. — Brian Greene

Underdog Quotes By Stacy Schiff

Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described as""the spirit of self-sacrifice, intense participation in political causes or political thought, intense sympathy for the underdog of any nationality, fanatical integrity, tragic inability to sink to compromise, true spirit of international responsibility. — Stacy Schiff

Underdog Quotes By James Jones

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of social conscience, The Movies. From all those movies that had begun to come out when Roosevelt went in.
He had been a kid back then, a kid who had not been on the bum yet, but he was raised up on all those movies that they made then, the ones that were between '32 and '37 and had not yet degenerated into commercial imitations of themselves like the Dead End Kid perpetual series that we have now. He had grown up with them, those movies like the every first Dead End, like Winternet, like Grapes Of Wrath, like Dust Be My Destiny, and those other movies starring John Garfield and the Lane girls, and the on-the-bum and prison pictures starring James Cagney and George Raft and Henry Fonda. — James Jones

Underdog Quotes By Jenny Han

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog. — Jenny Han

Underdog Quotes By Jon Gnarr

We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types. — Jon Gnarr

Underdog Quotes By Reese Witherspoon

Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never gonna get in, don't bother. They don't want you." I said, "I'm going to try." And I got in! But I wouldn't be the woman I am if I hadn't had that conflict to overcome. It has given me an underdog feeling all my life. — Reese Witherspoon

Underdog Quotes By Michael Lewis

There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man. — Michael Lewis

Underdog Quotes By Professor X.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 1975, 31 percent of college teachers were female; by 2009, the number had grown to 49.2 percent.7 There are more women teaching in college than ever, and it is quite possible that their presence, coupled with our discovery of the postmodern narrative, has had a feminizing effect on the collective unconscious of faculty thought. Strong winds of compassion blow across campus quads. Women are more empathetic than men, more giving, simply more bothered by anyone's underdog status. Many of the female adjuncts I have spoken to seem blessed and cursed by feelings of maternity toward the students. Women think about their actions, and the consequences of their actions, in a deeper way than do men. — Professor X.

Underdog Quotes By Shawn Anthony Levy

One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant. — Shawn Anthony Levy

Underdog Quotes By Eric Blehm

And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself. — Eric Blehm