Quotes and Sayings About Underdog
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
-- Bo Jackson -
Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.
-- Charlie Day -
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 -
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Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.
-- Darren Criss -
People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.
-- David WrightSource : Sean Platt, David Wright (2011). “Yesterday's Gone: Season One”, p.364, Sterling & Stone
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I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
-- Dominic MonaghanSource : "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.
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Beware of barking at underdogs; don't fight with people who have nothing to lose.
-- Dory Previn -
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I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
-- Elizabeth Banks -
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
-- Errol Flynn -
I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog. I'm capable of a lot more.
-- Esai Morales -
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 -
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Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.
-- Fred Durst -
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 -
I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
-- Gina CaranoSource : "What MMA Hottie Gina Carano Wants in a Man". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 19, 2012.
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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 -
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
-- Halle Berry -
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 BabbittSource : Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
-- J. Cole -
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.
-- James D. Watson -
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You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
-- Jay BaruchelSource : "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.
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Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
-- Jenny HanSource : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
-- Jessica HagedornSource : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.
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Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.
-- Jodie Foster -
I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
-- John Pilger -
I think everyone roots for the underdog.
-- Johnny KnoxvilleSource : "The school of hard Knox" by J Rentilly, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.
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With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
-- Johnny Weissmuller -
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When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'
-- Jonah Hill -
I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.
-- Judd Apatow