Triumph of the Underdog Quotes

In sport, the underdog does come out on top quite a bit.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

The great do not always prevail.

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

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

I remember once Manchester United were ahead of Manchester City by eight points and ended up losing it, so everything is possible in this life.

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

Sometimes, we just take too much glee in the downfall of people in power.

I'd rather be the underdog than anything.

But watching characters that are awkward, overcoming their own obstacles and finding some of the hardest criminals in the world is interesting. We like watching losers win because we're all basically losers.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

We became quite famous in our district. People came especially to watch us. And I used to love it when we heard them saying, 'There go the girls who beat boys.'

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

I thought the Mike Tyson story was beautiful and it drew me in. He was bullied, a small kid who started knocking out giants.

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.