Toby Jones Quotes

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

I love being the underdog sometimes.

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

I've always loved the underdog characters.

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

There's a lot of guys out there that can play at this level, and sometimes they might be discouraged because they come from a small school or a tough situation.

I'd rather be the underdog than anything.

I won the world title in K-1 as a nobody.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

Nothing really comes easy to you when you're under-recruited, you're undersized, you're undervalued. It's a situation where you have to be better than the bigger guys.

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

It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.

To be honest, it's more fun being the underdog.

I've been the underdog my whole career.

I was one of those guys who wasn't supposed to make it in this league.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

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

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'd play one year in the NFL, and now I'm going on my 17th year.

It's wonderful being the underdog.

Fred VanVleet's story - here's a kid who's not very fast, not very tall, undrafted, had every excuse to not make it big and here he is and he's gonna be one of the top free agents.

Look at a player like Divock Origi. No one was talking about the guy and then suddenly he becomes a hero.

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

I'm a big fan of seeing smaller guys vs. big men.

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