Disadvantaged Position Quotes

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

The deck is stacked against Obama.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

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

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

… relative positions have a way of changing. When the underdog becomes top dog, he is hardly likely to go on considering himself bound by a bad bargain he entered into unwillingly.

Men always suffer when women are ignorant. They suffer more than women, not only because women are stronger than men and more resistant, but because men are peculiarly vulnerable to the damage ignorant women can do at the periods of their life when they most need intelligent and wise care: in infancy, in adolescence, in times of illness and mental and emotional crisis, and in old age.

I've always felt like the underdog.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.

Nothing has been given to me.

I was kind of always the underdog.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.