Top 100 Quotes About The Underdog
#1. I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog.
Studs Terkel
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
Christina Aguilera
#5. I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Eugene Levy
#6. Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
Andy Serkis
#7. 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
#9. I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.
Kimberly Elise
#10. I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
John Pilger
#11. I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.
Baron Davis
#12. I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
Kangana Ranaut
#14. As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.
Hany Abu-Assad
#15. 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
#16. I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice.
Katie Hoff
#17. I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.
Michael K. Williams
#18. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
Tupac Shakur
#19. 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
#20. In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.
Aphex Twin
#21. 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
#22. People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.
David Wright
#23. From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.
Rose McGowan
#24. People might look at you as super-weird, but if that's your obsession, go for it. I do like a lot of mainstream stuff, and sometimes I also like different stuff. I tend to always root for the underdog.
Kristen Bell
#25. 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
#26. Sometimes you can't help but root for the underdog. Most underdogs are complete losers, though.
A.D. Aliwat
#27. Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog.
Jenny Han
#28. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
John Kendrew
#29. Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.
Edward Field
#30. You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!
H. Beam Piper
#31. The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
Bill Vaughan
#32. Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
Asif Kapadia
#33. 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
#34. You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
Jay Baruchel
#35. [Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.
Dominic Raab
#36. To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.
Steve Waugh
#37. I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
Fetty Wap
#38. Remus, always the underdog's friend, was kind to short and rather slow Peter Pettigrew, a fellow Gryffindor, whom James and Sirius might not have thought worthy of their attention without Remus's persuasion. Soon, these four became inseparable.
J.K. Rowling
#39. A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
Irving Babbitt
#40. In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
Arthur Rankin Jr.
#41. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.
Jonah Hill
#42. Comeback stories are popular because there is truth in them. It is a morality tale. The good guy has to win. The underdog has to defeat the big bad wolf. David beat Goliath did he not? The bad guy has to lose. That is how it works.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#43. I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.
Robert Gibbs
#44. I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
Jeff Koons
#45. I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
Gina Carano
#46. Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom.
Malcolm Gladwell
#47. And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself.
Eric Blehm
#48. The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.
Guido Palau
#49. Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.
Justin Tuck
#50. Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.
Charlie Day
#51. 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
#53. I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
Pink
#54. 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
#55. Humans like those stories because in the real world the underdog loses.
- Gastion
Ian Isaro
#56. I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.
Chris Rock
#57. Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.
Ross Perot
#58. I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.
Phil Keoghan
#59. Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.
Alexandra Katehakis
#60. I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
#61. We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
Shane Koyczan
#62. 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
#63. Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
Kate Beckinsale
#64. 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
#65. Everyone loves the underdog. Until they have to take his side.
Philipp Meyer
#66. I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.
Victor Ortiz
#68. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
Jenny Han
#69. There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
Halle Berry
#70. Kate approved of the child's father, and so did she. Kate all her life had championed the underdog, and so therefore did she. And what more oppressed puppy in all the world was she likely to find than this one?
Dorothy Dunnett
#72. 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
#73. I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#74. Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.
Darren Criss
#75. We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.
Happy Chandler
#76. With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller
#77. Hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#78. Because it's anger that drives us and delivers us. It's not any kind of love either-love for the underdog or the victim, or whatever you want to call them. Some litigators like to claim that. The losers.
Russell Banks
#80. I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'
Greil Marcus
#81. It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.
Shaun White
#82. 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
#83. Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.
Amber Tamblyn
#84. How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
Kenneth Branagh
#85. My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
Bo Jackson
#86. I've always loved the underdog characters.
Jim O'Heir
#87. The Mets have heart and character, and I need a man who can root for the underdog. I refuse to sleep with a Yankees fan.
Jennifer Probst
#88. When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.
Kristen Bell
#89. 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
#90. The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. 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
#92. Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.
Joy Behar
#93. What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!
CM Punk
#94. I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
Vikas Swarup
#95. I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
Errol Flynn
#96. I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
Dominic Monaghan
#97. 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
#98. 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.
Elizabeth Mitchell
#99. I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.
Serena Williams
#100. 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
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