Underdog Quotes

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. (Kristen Bell)
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. View quote
H. L. Mencken
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog. View quote
Bo Jackson
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. View quote
Lakhdar Brahimi
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. View quote
Steve Guttenberg
You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him! View quote
H. Beam Piper
If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him. View quote
Jane Addams
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. View quote
George Steinbrenner
I'm the most underdog underdog there is. View quote
Barry Goldwater
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. View quote
Irving Babbitt
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic. (Marilyn Monroe)
I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music. View quote
Rob Halford
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog. View quote
Philip Yancey
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. View quote
Jonah Hill
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! View quote
Zac Efron
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. View quote
Lisa Scottoline
Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog. View quote
Jenny Han
The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'. View quote
Asa Larsson
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. View quote
Eugene Levy
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds. View quote
J. Cole
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. (Jay Baruchel)
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. View quote
Johnny Weissmuller
I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog. View quote
Judd Apatow
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. View quote
Linda Hunt
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. View quote
Lee Greenwood