Underdog Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Philip Yancey

  Christmas, Jesus, Powerful

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Rain, Boys

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

  Dennis Prager

  Compassion, People, Evil

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• I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.

  Steve Nash

  College, Nba, Play

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• When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black History, Identity

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• 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

  Winning, Feelings, Way

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• Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

  Ben Stiller

  Blood, Dodgeball, Comedy Movie

  "Fictional character: White Goodman". "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 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!

  H. Beam Piper

  Hands, Giving, Trying

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.22, eStar Books

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• People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Roots, People, Trying

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Roots

  "What's Next for the Virgin Director?". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. December 13, 2005.

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

  Happy Chandler

  Dog, People, Peculiar

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

  Kristen Bell

  Suffering, Watches, Unjust

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• I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

  Kristen Bell

  Fighting, Thinking, Voice

  "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey from the Small Screen to Theatres, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• 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, People, Empathy

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• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  E. W. Howe

  Dog, Fighting, Winning

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• I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

  Matthias Schoenaerts

  Hero, Hard Times, Things In Life

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• 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, Thinking

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

  Pink

  Labels, Felt, Comfortable

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• My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Mother, Dream, Special

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  J. Cole

  Odds, Beats, Feels

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• 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

  Men, Self, Standards Set

  Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!

  Wally Cox

  Needs

  "Underdog", TV series, 1960.

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• 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

  Way, Spirit, Kind

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• 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.

  Lee Greenwood

  Christian, Would Be, Possibility

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