Underdog Quotes - Page 8

• One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Father, Son, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs.

  Girl Talk

  Crazy, People, Feelings

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

  Judd Apatow

  Sweet, Fun, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

  Jodie Foster

  Blow, Feminist, Rambo

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• 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.

  Jane Addams

  Pigs, Understanding, Trying

  Jane Addams (1961). “Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes, by Jane Addams. With a Foreword by Henry Steele Commager, Drawings by Norah Hamilton”

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• I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice.

  Katie Hoff

  Nice, Kind, Feels

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• As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Oppression, Feels, Humans

  Source: variety.com

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• Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

  Donald Horne (1966). “The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties”

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• Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Character, Play, Ambitious

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• Big L is my favorite rapper of all time. He got killed quite a few years ago now but I think he's amazing and he kind of inspires me like his style inspires me. I don't think there's been anyone better since. I mean, Biggie Smalls is definitely on the top of the list but Big L is like the underdog, I like to give him the edge.

  Andy Milonakis

  Mean, Thinking, Rapper

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• One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Names, Band, Literature

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• It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, New York, Hate

  "WWE Raw" with John Cena, July 11, 2011.

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• It doesn't matter if you're good at anything, just try your best. Then there's the idea that individually they're flawed but together they can do amazing things. I think that's a very nice message and it's not something you hit people over the head with. It just comes with The Muppets; it's what they're about. It's that kind of innocent try, try, try quality. And it also makes them underdogs. You can't help but support the underdog.

  James Bobin

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.

  Joy Behar

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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• I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday.

  Marco Rubio

  Tuesday, Whole Life, Wells

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

  Stephen Karam

  Reading, Play, Knowing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

  Celeste Ng

  Quality, Midwest, Kind

  "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.

  Kimberly Elise

  Nice, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.

  Jon Gnarr

  People, Bully, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as the underdog anymore. They're always presented as though they were these little guys who you should be championing - Facebook will overthrow the cable television complex, blah blah - but it's more likely they will merge with them.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, Guy, Mergers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Dream, Class, White

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

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• I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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