Defying the Odds Quotes

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

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

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

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.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

People remember the treble in 1999 as if we only had to turn up to collect three trophies. But on that cup run, we were 1-0 down against Liverpool going into injury time, and we turned it around to win 2-1. And everyone remembers the Champions League final in Barcelona, where the same thing happened.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

When I became Miss India Asia-Pacific in 1994, I was a small town girl from Calicut. If I could make it, then wow, anyone could.

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.

Good Charlotte, for us, comes from a place of youth for us, back when we were struggling and fighting for every inch, just trying to get by.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.

I remember there was a time when people were saying I could never win again.

When the Heat were put together, there was talk of going undefeated. They didn't get off to a great start, but they found a way to win back-to-back championships.

How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been accomplished?

I'm not dying until I do.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

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

I always want to take on the giants.

Turning a campaign around when you’re behind is like pushing a wet noodle up a hill with your nose.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.