Top 185 Underdog Quotes

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.

My whole career’s been an underdog’s.

I love being the underdog.

I’ve been an underdog my whole life with the shape that I have and the way that I look. But once I get in the ring it’s a whole different ball game.

My dad went far in basketball, so I just see that there are still people that are better than me. So I try to play like an underdog and I’m just trying to surpass my dad.

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

When you’re the underdog, you just lay low and work.

I’m ready to be the underdog and challenge the champion. I’m ready to go out there and prove people wrong.

I like being the underdog.

The oddsmakers can have me as an underdog. I’ve been an underdog my whole life, and I’ve been proving them wrong my whole life. Those are just numbers.

I’ve always been an underdog.

I’m a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

The other day, someone told me that all my life I will be telling the stories of underdogs. Their stories always appeal to me.

I’ve always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.

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.

What I look for are guys that work hard, have a great work ethic and embrace that underdog mentality a little bit. And certainly there is no substitute for toughness.

Retail employees are the underdogs or ‘Rudy’ of the work force. They start off at the bottom trying to gain experience, but rarely expect a good wage, a good experience or any career mobility. We need to change that mindset.

I feel like we’re always going to be the underdog, but we like that. It’s a really cool thing and it inspires us. It pushes us.

The film ‘Harjeeta’ is based on the remarkable true story of a underdog, who overcomes his circumstances, fights against all odds and at end, comes out as a winner.

I always root for the underdogs. That’s my whole thing.

I’m used to being the underdog.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

What I look for are guys that work hard, have a great work ethic and embrace that underdog mentality a little bit. And certainly there is no substitute for toughness.

This country always wants the underdog to win, that’s in our nature.

People love sympathy, people love the underdog. For me, sympathy is not part of my drag aesthetic.

For me personally, nothing ever changes. When I go out onto the pitch, I always want to win. All the other circumstances, whether we’re favourites or underdogs, whether we’re under pressure or not, doesn’t make a big difference.

I’d rather have the underdog position than the favorite because I’ve been the underdog for a long time. I don’t mind fighting that way.

Spiderman is the underdog, and I love underdogs.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the ‘upper dog’.

For the majority of my amateur boxing career, I was the underdog weirdly enough and that served me well.

I’ve been under a lot of pressure in my career – fights I was the underdog or counted out in.

As you know, I’m all about victory for the underdog.

You can be an underdog, but you can beat the champion.

Sometimes, against the underdog, you can lose because they want it more. It happens to every team.

I love being the underdog sometimes.

There’s a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

I like being the underdog.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

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.

I had to really work for everything. I’m definitely an underdog. I think Jesus made me be in that situation to be able to relate to more people. That’s why give back to the at-risk kids.

It’s always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you.

I’ve never been the top dog. I’ve always been the underdog. And that’s why I relate so much to Utah, because we’re underdogs, we’re overlooked, kind of thought of as an afterthought.

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.

A lot of times you go to a fight and the crowd will be for a certain fighter who is the favourite but if the underdog shows he has a chance they sometimes even swing to side of the underdog.

That’s what independent filmmaking does: it gives the underdog a voice, a shot.

The more people that learn about you, even if you’re an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

I’ve always enjoyed being… I guess you would call it the underdog.

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.

I would love to do Tammi Terrell’s story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

To be honest, it’s more fun being the underdog.

The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.

I’ve been the underdog my whole career.

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

I really liked the idea of playing – I won’t say the underdog – but characters who have a lot of conflict.

Like all extremely nice people, I tend to be on the side of the underdog, or at least feel sorry for him.

It’s better to be the underdog than have all the pressure, for sure.

I always try to find something where I feel like I’m kind of the underdog and kind of put that little chip on my shoulder.

A mega fight to me is a fight that I am in and people think I am going to lose. I am the underdog. Golovkin, it’s a perfect fight. It’s a hard fight, but a fight that I think I have a fantastic chance of beating him. He’s not the biggest middleweight, so if he moves up in weight, I am going to have the size advantage.

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.

When I decided to collaborate with people, I wanted to collaborate more with the underdogs, the street people, messing with the people like Jae Millz and Papoose. When I went to New York, they were all over the mixtapes, so I wanted to get down with those guys instead of trying to go safe with all the super-big names.

Clevelanders care about underdogs, partly because we are, partly because we have empathy, and we’re – we have faith in our God and faith in humanity, and that makes us support the underdog.

I’m always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

The further left you are, the more your concern for the underdog crowds out everything else, leading you to overlook inconsistencies. You might, for example, argue for immigration and multiculturalism in the UK, but not in the Amazon. You might demand equality before the law and, at the same time, gender quotas.

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.

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

I’ve always been the underdog and underdogs don’t really care for attention.

I’ve been an underdog my whole life. I was the underdog against Adrien Broner and Victor Ortiz, and you saw what happened. I won.

‘Dierdre And Laney Rob A Train’ is sort of an underdog movie.

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!’

I don’t like laughing at people unless they’re in a privileged position or if they’re in authority. If it’s poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I’d rather be laughing with them.

I’ve always felt like the underdog, and I’m comfortable with that label.

I always consider myself to be the underdog.

Even in the past, going out to Germany to fight for the world title I was the underdog, was getting no praise and I went in there very confident I would win and that’s what happened.