Contests Quotations

I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely a part of my athletic career. I always wear a cross on my goggles during contests when I'm doing something gnarly. It's a reminder that I've got someone else helping me out.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique - The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

I was so stoked I got it out early. I was nervous because I fell on the first hit of my first run, but I didn't care that much because I knew I had a better run in me. I practiced this run before and made it really sketchy. I was barely hanging on, but it just came together for me tonight. It seems to happen in contests for me.

No-one contests the need to address the high cost of and the corresponding difficulty of having access to cross-border clearing and settlement in the EU. We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation. It is clear, though, that the present system is untenable. Changes are going to have to be made. We believe the industry recognizes this as well and we would encourage them to be a part of the solution and not the problem." ()

My dad used to make me follow those guys in the city championship. I couldn't believe how good George's putting and chipping were. He used to play in putting contests for money all the time at Harding and Lincoln. It's no coincidence he became such a great putter.

Now that sounds like a lot but its not a lot when you think of how many a day. I submit about 200 a day and that is not 200 contests - - that's 200 ballots.

Funds believe that if they fail to mount a forceful response to News Corp, their credibility in other contests will be shot,

Go Daddy(R) gives money away all the time. We do it with contests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. A happy employee is a productive employee, no doubt about it. Giving more than people expect is one of my favorite parts of the job.

I don't ride ski areas all that much, and I don't do contests and I don't go in snowboard shops and I rarely read the snowboard magazines.

I hate for that to really even be brought up because there's so many good things that have happened throughout the contests with people make great plays and great comebacks, those types of things.

Because of the weather (rain) in the previous contests versus Hamilton and Browning, we weren't able to run the option that much. It opens the outside running game when teams load that many defenders near the line of scrimmage. It's the part of our offense that we need to run.

What makes 'Survivor' and 'Amazing Race' ripe for DVD is the fact that they are action-oriented and competition-based. There are challenges and outdoor racing and different things bred into the contests that allow for repeated viewing.

My roommate was black and he'd get me to dress up really nerdy and take me to the parties with the brothers. He'd put me in dance contests against the best dancer there. That's how we made our grocery money ... until people started recognizing me and didn't want to dance against me.

Some of these fellows are CEOs. They're attorneys. They're doctors. They're big shots in industry. They have big egos. They have one of these contests and lose, you don't see them anymore.

Our view on it is simply with what we know of Mattoon. We compete against them in a few sports already. Our boys' soccer teams play. Our baseball teams play. Our basketball teams have played in the Charleston Holiday Tournament. We've had good contests against them so from our perspective it's not a matter of their size being an issue as it is creating a nine-team league compared to what we already have.

Our team has grown up a little bit. We had some great contests when they had some looks, we got some big rebounds and we hit some very important free throws down the stretch. That's a team that's maturing.

I think Thomas was just happy that we won a home game. We've had just two home games (out of nine contests overall) and we have to be able to win at home. What I like about Thomas is that he's really cut way down on his turnovers this season. He handles the ball a lot more, yet he's become much more disciplined.

Three out of our last four contests came down to the wire. That is why college basketball is the greatest sport in the world. You have to play every night.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

We are hoping that all four Indian winners of Miss World and Miss Universe contests will be there.

We're all waiting with bated breath every time he bowls, ... All I know is that champions usually get up for these contests and I'd be surprised if he doesn't play. Don't ask him, because he'll tell you he's 100 per cent fit and he's never felt better.

Tough matches prepare you better for contests ahead.

We did wage a very effective campaign to put pressure on the ABI board to do the right thing ... These contests are won or lost by how many mistakes you make. We didn't make any mistakes.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

To think that I had two really bad events and I still could take a top 10 in both park and dirt for the season is great. I'm psyched about that, but you still kind of look at it as 'What if?' Maybe next year will be better for me. Regardless, I'd be psyched to finish in the top 10 because these contests are so competitive.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.

We always light up the house. We always had contests there every year. When we moved here, we decided to continue the tradition. We lit up the house, and before we knew it, all the neighbors were doing it, too.

With local governments having no money to support many of these things on their own, holding these beauty contests is becoming a very attractive way to get them done.

At our twentieth reunion, we had a picnic at Cascade Park. It was 1951 and most of us had little kids. There were games and contests and it was a lot of fun.

There are lots of contests that give away prizes and money, but we wanted a contest that would change someone's life.

The Vintage Hockey Program commemorates hockey's rich, 87-year history. The program involves the entire hockey family on and off the ice. Players and fans alike will have the chance to wear authentic jerseys and vintage fashion apparel as well as participate in Vintage Hockey-themed activities such as 'turn-back-the-clock' contests and promotions.

There will be some very good contests this year. There are a lot of good boxers back from last year.

The races for the N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals are the only statewide contests on the ballot this year, so it's key that voters across North Carolina have the facts on these candidates. The State Judicial Voter Guide does just that.

We've had some good contests in the last year; at the Rose Bowl, and up there in Columbus, that's about as big as it gets.

We have decided to add at least two and perhaps as many as four contests in addition to Iowa and New Hampshire.

Bad. We're not communicating on defense. In the film against Indiana, they shot the ball well. But that was partly our fault too because we didn't get a lot of contests on their shots and we didn't keep it out of the post.

This year the umpires have been instructed to actively police tagging, blocking and any contact in marking contests not directly aimed at winning the ball.

In the last 20 years, all these spots and sales promotions and contests were designed to deliver to advertisers, but we've lost sight of the fact that we have to get the listeners first.

Oh, I love contests ? and I had been paying particular attention to the Oscars this year.

It used to be that contests were more regionalized. Now it's a world market. Technology has made it so you can send a boat anywhere in the world or charter a boat at any location and compete.

The non-conference is always a mixed bag. Our non-conference contests are good, but we need to be prepared for St. Francis (Pa.) at the end of September. Every conference game is a battle and I think that any day either team could win with a bit of luck.

Before they had dance contests and pie eating contests ... it's not like it used to be.

I don't personally know Michael Angelo or his music, but regarding contests and who is faster or whatever. It doesn't interest me. Trying to determine who picks more notes per second is ridiculous. What is important is the quality of the music and how well it speaks to fans who love it.

All language is a popularity contest.

As far as contests go, this is the last big event of the season. It's affects us greatly. Normally, we don't get as much walk-in traffic.

The game itself is really the last thing on anybody's mind. It's all about the contests and the parties and the people-watching and being cool. It's a celebration of the game and a lifestyle. It's when everything and everybody surrounding the game comes together and struts their stuff.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...

The objective of the contests is to get new music heard and reward artists on a periodic basis.

We specialized it to run employee contests in the stores. We encouraged employees to go through the warehouse to find good items for sale on eBay.

He played against them earlier this year and I think he enjoys the challenge of those contests as much as the rest of our guys do. He did well early last year but then was out and we missed him in the business end of the season.

I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.

The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse...

Art has never been a popularity contest.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

The idea that you can find your friends, you can talk, you can see who's the best, you can have contests - it's redefining how gamers think of the machine, it's making it more social. As we spread this idea across all our products, that's where we'll take the leadership role.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.