Quotes About Underdogs

#1. There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.

Chuck Knox

#2. Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.

John Nichols

#3. The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Richard Brookhiser

#4. I am always a sucker for the underdogs. I love Batman and Superman, but when it comes to the guys who don't stand in the front of the line, Aquaman is one of the key guys for me. He's so much fun to work on.

Geoff Johns

#5. I'm a big fan of the underdogs.

Bryan Cogman

#6. 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.

Peter Hook

#7. I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

Daniel Alarcon

#8. A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

Anthony Browne

#9. [As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

Ralph Nader

#10. Topcats often begin as underdogs.

Bernard Meltzer

#11. We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

Bernie Taupin

#12. 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

#13. Beware of barking at underdogs; don't fight with people who have nothing to lose.

Dory Previn

#14. 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

#15. I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

Matthias Schoenaerts

#16. We were over-whelming underdogs.

Yogi Berra

#17. I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

Lauren Myracle

#18. My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

#19. 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

#20. Jews are underdogs - not in my world, obviously, they're not.

Chelsea Handler

#21. I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

ASAP Rocky

#22. I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.

Saul Rubinek

#23. I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Phil Keoghan

#24. When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#25. There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Malcolm Gladwell

#26. I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

Elizabeth Banks

#27. I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

Steve Nash

#28. Sometimes you can't help but root for the underdog. Most underdogs are complete losers, though.

A.D. Aliwat

#29. Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

Criss Jami

#30. I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Danielle Brooks

#31. In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Theodor Adorno

#32. Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

Curtis Jackson

#33. The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

L. Ron Hubbard

#34. Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

Steven Gerrard

#35. We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us.
(on the Champions league Final)

Steven Gerrard

#36. Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the
downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln
with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

Kris Kristofferson

#37. I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

Ernie Pyle

#38. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

Malcolm Gladwell

#39. God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

Dillon Burroughs

#40. It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

Hans Christian Andersen

#41. Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.

Malcolm Gladwell

#42. I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Criss Jami