Underdog Quotes

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Victory, Lose, Speech

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller

Through, Few, Wins

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
Zac Efron

Nature, Great, Best

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

Self, Him, Down

Well, fans always root for the underdog.
Maria Sharapova

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

Society, Person, Seem

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

Goal, Off, Year

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
Steve Guttenberg

Hero, Pretty, Others

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

Hate, Long, Real

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

Good, Talk, American

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

Often, Spirit, Weird

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. Howe

Fight, Win, Often

I've always had an underdog perspective.
Jason Reitman

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

Hard, Watch, Suffer

I think everyone roots for the underdog.
Johnny Knoxville

Everyone, Roots

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
Halle Berry

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

Art, Help, Trying

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

Nice, Successful, Enough

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

Life, Funny, Struggle

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
Dominic Monaghan

Big, Fan, Breaking

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

Woman, Authority, Liked

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.
Judd Apatow

Everything, Root, Tends

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

Amazing, Sleep, Through

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
Bo Jackson

Bad, Guy, Either

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

Same, Felt, Style

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
Jonah Hill

Change, Good, Great

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
Gina Carano

Love, Fight, Surprised

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
Feist

Friends, Big, Keep

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Strong, Around, Natural

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.
Happy Chandler

Matter, Dog, Peculiar

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