Underdog Quotes

You're always disappointed when you lose, but the girls played their hearts out. We told them to hold their heads high. Last year, we were shocked, but this year we were the underdogs. We had nothing to lose. The girls went and laid it all out on the line. - Rick Soracco

You would think that would be enough. There is nothing wrong with being an underdog. We just go out and make teams respect us. - Chris Hanson

You play against Boston, the defending world champion. New York is the 26-time world champions. [The Angels], they just won the World Series two years ago. We should be kind of under the radar. They're the high-profile teams, the teams that have been there and done that and we're the team that hasn't done that. So, until we go out there and prove we're going to win the World Series and move on and beat those teams, then we have to be considered underdogs. - Chris Widger

You consider yourself the underdog. We're playing a powerhouse. I don't see our players looking at them in awe. They're looking as them as team they have a great deal of respect for. - Mike Leaf

You can't shut yourself off from hearing it, ... I've heard everything from late first round to fifth or sixth. I really can't think about that now. All I can think about now is having a good year. This is my senior year. In my senior year of high school I had no offers. So it doesn't make a difference to me what anyone says about me now. I have to go out and play hard and prove myself once again. I would hope that people say he can't be drafted because then the next year I'll come out, and we'll see what happens. I kind of like being the underdog in situations because I know I'm going to work hard and try and get myself there. - Bruce Gradkowski

You can't be the underdog when you are playing in Canada. We have all the pressure. We have to win. There is nothing taken for granted. - Justin Pogge

You always pull for the underdog, and Billy works extremely hard. He comes in early and gets shots, stays after and gets shots. When game time comes around, it pays off. - Antonio Daniels

Yeah, we expected this. Honestly, we came in thinking, what do we have to lose? Everyone else thinks we're underdogs. We think we can beat this team. - Chris Fleming

Yeah, most definitely we still think of ourselves as underdogs and rightfully so because we haven't done so well the last couple years. The more I don't read about us, the more I still believe that we're still not getting respect. - Michael Robinson

Yeah, it's a smaller area and we're underdogs when compared with teams like Stanford, but that's OK. The people up there have a passion for running and I like the fact that, even though you compete in a smaller sport, everyone will know your name. - AJ Acosta