Underdog Quotes - Page 7

• Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Wish, Together, Action

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.

  Van Jones

  Uplifting, Children, Fighting

  Source: pen.org

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• You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.

  Jill Stein

  Loss, Winning, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Winning, Ideas, Enemy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.

  Charlie Day

  Years, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.

  Chuck Knox

  Thinking, Games, Nfl

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• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, White Man, Personality

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• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.]

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Expectations, Optimism, Waiting

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• 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.'

  Jonah Hill

  People, Style, World

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

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• People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

  David Wright

  School, People, Middle

  Sean Platt, David Wright (2011). “Yesterday's Gone: Season One”, p.364, Sterling & Stone

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• Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

  Sarah Palin

  Principles, Sometimes, Guts

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2012

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• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  Vikas Swarup

  Girl, Mother, Believe

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• 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.

  Eugene Levy

  Thinking, Laughing, Different

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• Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think cant be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Running, Fun, Real

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• Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

  James D. Watson

  People, Trying, World

  "Double helix trouble". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2007.

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• 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.

  Fetty Wap

  Mean, Sleep, Squad

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• My whole career, I've had an issue with always kind of being an underdog and making a big mistake when it counts and falling and having to climb back up. One moment everything will be peachy and everyone will be saying the nicest things about me and loving me, and the next minute I'm the worst, I'm evil, all these things. It's like a fallen angel.

  Johnny Weir

  Mistake, Fall, Angel

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• If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

  Jessie Ware

  Passion, Winning, Always Trying

  "Jessie Ware: 'I want to be a private pop star, like Sade or Annie Lennox'" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

  James McAvoy

  Hero, Fire, Play

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• The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

  Harry S. Truman

  Dog, Selfish, Past

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• Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Media, Lines

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.109, Criss Jami

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• I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.

  Jason Blum

  Love Is, People, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.

  Jason Blum

  Ideas, Scratches, Almost Done

  Source: collider.com

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• We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. 
  (on the Champions league Final)

  Steven Gerrard

  Istanbul, Champions League, Finals

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