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!
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.
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.
Donald Trump is clearly the underdog in this race. Just about every organized institution has thrown everything it has at him. And they won’t stop until they get their wish, that Hillary Clinton will be sworn in on January 20, 2017.
I’ll always have a chip on my shoulder. I always view myself as an underdog.
I’ve beaten a lot of guys where I’ve been the underdog throughout my career. And, I’ve made a career out of and I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in proving doubters wrong. And, you do that enough times and you start to believe in your abilities.
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
I liked coaching in an underdog situation.
I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I’ve done since I was a kid.
It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.
I’m always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don’t get told.
I’ve always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level – never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I’ve always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.
Sweden usually don’t play good against the poor teams. We like being the underdogs.
I always want to think of myself as an underdog.
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
I love the idea of being the underdog, coming in with a take on this underdog character and completely blow people’s expectations away. Like, ‘Oh, you thought he was going to be a wimpy character? No no no.’
To be honest, it’s more fun being the underdog.
When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.
Tim Tebow is the kind of unsung hero we can all root for, an underdog who is all too often ignored by the fans and media.
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.’
I think, probably like a lot of people, I kind of root for the underdog.
Pittsburgh is an underdog city because it’s been in a recession for a really long time, since the steel industry collapsed, so it has this underdog mentality. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but I also think they want to rally around their Pittsburgh people.
I’m kind of a grinder. I’m a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
I myself have been an underdog. I never got anything easy in the film industry.
It’s frustrating and difficult to go out there every night as an underdog, knowing you’re probably going to lose, knowing you still have to play hard to prove yourself to your teammates, coaches and higher-ups that you’re still valuable.
I am the underdog – the 5-foot, 6-inch wrestler. The kids don’t say, ‘I can beat Rey.’ Instead, they say, ‘I can be like Rey.’
I had my first professional fight was in 2001 in Venezuela – it was also my first international trip away from Brazil. It was a great experience. Then in 2005, I went to Finland and won. The next year there was a tournament in Brazil with three fights in one night. I was the underdog and won all three fights.
I think everyone roots for the underdog.
I like to be the underdog.
When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.
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 feel like I’m always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.
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.
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We’ve always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.
In sport, the underdog does come out on top quite a bit.
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 never pick a side when I am announcing a big boxing match but there’s always a part of you rooting for the underdog I guess.
Boxing is made for film – there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.
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.
I’ve always been the underdog, and I’ve always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that’s Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.
I’m always the underdog and I always win the fight.
