A Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Romantic Position Underdog Winning

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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian - Author
Born: September 3, 1963

I'd rather have the underdog position than the favorite because I've been the underdog for a long time. I don't mind fighting that way.

Gegard Mousasi

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

Ricky Gervais

And I know it's an old cliche, but winning and being in a winning position breeds confidence - cliche or not, it's still true.

Chris Kamara

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

Rashad Evans

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Dominic Raab

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Dennis Prager

Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.

Joy Behar

I've been an underdog my whole life. I was the underdog against Adrien Broner and Victor Ortiz, and you saw what happened. I won.

Marcos Maidana

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

Fred Durst

Winning is everything, especially at this stage of my career - I'm going into Year 7. Because I've been franchise-tagged twice, I've been in a position where it's not about the money so much; it's about winning. I want to win.

Kirk Cousins

I've always felt most comfortable in the hopeless romantic, underdog kind of roles who always gets the girl in the end. I don't know what that says about me but for some reason it's a natural fit.

Jason Biggs

It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position.

Joe R. Lansdale

A lot of times you go to a fight and the crowd will be for a certain fighter who is the favourite but if the underdog shows he has a chance they sometimes even swing to side of the underdog.

Michael Buffer

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Jeff Koons

There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you suffer like in any other sport. Suffering euphoria comes when the opponent blunders in a winning position, but it is undeserved.