We're getting to be the professional underdog here.


Bob Poe

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The ranks are getting bigger every game. Everyone likes the underdog.
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To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.
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We're going to be the underdog.
KATE CURRAN
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
We knew we were the underdog coming in here. We tried to tell ourselves we could win, but we got off...
DEREK TAPSCOTT
I'm sure he'd like to think he's the underdog. I've never seen a team 20-0 be the underdog before.
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Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Everybody likes to be the underdog at times.
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The Tell Tale Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to hi...
MATTHEW PEARL
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball play...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the und...
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ERIC KREPPS
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BART STUPAK
We were really proud that the county commission listened. We really felt like we were the underdog.
KATIE CHESSER
They're trying to bring the whole team. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring (former Cincinnati coa...
CARMELO ANTHONY
We were the underdog today, and prevailed. That's the best thing about it.
CASEY RANDOLPH
This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS
We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN
What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE
Professional is an apt definition for me, professional slouch, that is. I can be very professional a...
J.C. PATRICK
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JEFF KOONS
You would think things were getting better around here.
BETTY MCGEE
My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.
JANET EVANOVICH
If these guys keep it up, Charlie Poe might be the one that gets promoted.
KEN JOYCE
Underdog, that's something that we've been accustomed to, playing in Philadelphia. We're always the ...
JIMMY ROLLINS
When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the o...
ABBA EBAN
I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could thi...
EUGENE LEVY
Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession."

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,
Bob,...
JAROD KINTZ
My dad was violent. Things were getting really bad and if I'd stayed, I might not be here now.
NAVEEN ANDREWS
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we w...
JOHN ASTIN
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We'll probably be an underdog for the first eight games,
BRIAN KELLY
It's the closest thing to semi-professional hockey you'll see around here.
GREG NEAL
We knew we were the underdog. We all pushed our hardest, but East is a strong team.
MARK HELLER
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STEVEN MOFFAT
Here in America, people are very professional.
ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO
Bob started getting paranoid and didn't trust anybody. The day he accused me of calling the attorney...
LARRY REED
We came out here and we tried our best, and just executed our offense. We knew that we were a big un...
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Bob Novak obviously left the set a little early. I had told him in advance that we were going to ask...
ED HENRY
We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.
JOYCE RACHELLE
Getting to the state tournament was what we were working for. Our goal was never the streak; it was ...
ISAIAH DAHLMAN
After Steve and Bob split, Bob asked if I'd be willing to take over. I was honored.
CHAD REITZ
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
It'll be nice going into a game as the underdog for once.
JULIE MATHENY
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
PAUL VALERY
Bill Edwards practices here because he's a professional.
LEE MEYER
Bob was and always will be my everything. I love you, Bob Denver.
DREAMA DENVER
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AL FRANKEN
All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two op...
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To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
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And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
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JUSTINA CHEN
It (being an underdog) can tend to be a bit of a motivating factor.
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Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
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The only thing that would make this better would be if we were in Houston today getting ready to pla...
SHERYL SWOOPES
We don't have professional burglars here. We have opportunists.
GERALD CVETKO
There is no professional field hockey. So you better be getting your education. Otherwise, it's a wa...
GAIL PETTY
Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE
It's important for the community that the department be as professional and operate as efficiently a...
GREG HICKS
[Opponents] kind of put the secondary in the backseat. That's fine, we're always going to be the und...
TARELL BROWN
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
TOM ROBBINS
It was a blend you need. One always picked up the other. We were the underdog team. These guys had n...
BRIAN CHAMPION
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FEREIDOON YAZDI
This is what we worked for all summer. We were really focused on getting here.
DAJUAN HARRIS
I don't like being an underdog. We're Florida State. We're not supposed to be underdogs.
MATT MEINROD
Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be...
MIKE RUCKER
That said, I don't want to disrespect their record. They're a very good team. We're definitely the u...
DEREK LAXDAL
He truly believes in Pacific, and that's an absolute must if you're going to be really successful he...
LYNN KING
Ninety five percent of everybody who came through here today had their drivers license, their insura...
GEORGE PAYNE
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RICH LITTLE
Florida is wide open, ... With Bob Graham being in the race, virtually every one of the movers and s...
SCOTT MADDOX
I'm sure we'll probably be an underdog. But we've been that before.
ROGER CLEMENS
We'll come up here and give them a battle tomorrow night. I'm sure we are a 20-point underdog again,...
BUTCH WALLER
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful yo...
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
GILES FODEN
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
H. L. MENCKEN
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Of course. There's no pressure on us when people tell us we're the underdog. Being an underdog is pr...
JOSHUA TINCH
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi...
JULIO CORTáZAR
We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD
Grandpa Bob. The kids thought it was super fun. They were almost squealing with excitement.
CINDY CARDER
We were simply shut out by Bob the Builder's private parts and other extraneous items.
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I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he though...
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The sad heart needs work to do.
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Quoth the raven nevermore.
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And the raven quote, nevermore.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose fo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Leave my loneliness unbroken
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Tell Tale Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Lord help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A hero is someone who is selfless.
MARK ANDREW POE
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;- Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I am ugly.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
EDGAR ALLAN POE
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
EDGAR ALLAN POE