Underdog Quotes - Page 5

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

  Asa Larsson

  Dog, Feelings, Littles

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• People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It's so strange.

  Jon Gnarr

  People, Bully, Voting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.

  Doseone

  Dad, Inspiration, Negativity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

  Eric Bachmann

  Writing, Roots, Brain

  "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

  Sy Montgomery

  Bullying, Nature, Children

  Sy Montgomery (2006). “The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Thinking, Hands

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• I've been the underdog in my life since I was a kid.

  RZA

  Kids

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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• Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

  Harry S. Truman

  Past, Names, Differences

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• I would say that I am not that well-versed politically. I am just someone who wants to speak out about anyone who is in a situation where they are suffering. I always want to stick up for the underdog.

  Nadine Shah

  Suffering, Speak, Situation

  Source: thequietus.com

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• ... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Pain, Ill Health, Advice

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• [As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

  Ralph Nader

  Children, Book, People

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• You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

  Jay Baruchel

  Growing Up, Class, Canada

  "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them.

  A. J. Hawk

  Brother, Humble, Two

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• I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

  Baron Davis

  Roots, Lakers, Fans

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• The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Fall, Thinking, Faces

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• The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog - undervalued and undermined - even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reading, Secret, Stories

  "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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• The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

  Bill Vaughan

  Winning, Average, Chance

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• Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!

  Sid Waddell

  Keith, Darts

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• KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about what they do the underdog, or in this case, the underchicken - So, if KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals?I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I-m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hurt, Animal, Practice

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• A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

  Anthony Browne

  Lonely, Character, Childhood

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• Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the
  downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln
  with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Art, Wild Side, America

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

  Halle Berry

  Fighting, African American, Challenges

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• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  Nancy Lublin

  Mean, Cartoon, News

  "On Underdogs" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2009.

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• It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Heart, Racism, World

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

  Jonah Hill

  World, Comedy, Unexpected

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

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