Fighting against the odds Quotes

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

In desperate position, you must fight.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

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

I'm older now but still running against the wind

I won't let the sun go down on me.

One Child's courage to survive.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.

If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.