Contest Quotes · Page 3

I'm not one of those guys who has to drop ten pounds in the week before a contest.

— Dorian Yates

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

— Andrew Lansley

I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.

— Gerald Green

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

— Jefferson Davis

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

This is looking like a contest , of who can act like they care less .

— Taylor Swift

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

— Bryan Callen

I don't see myself participating in a contest like 'Bigg Boss.'

— Arshad Warsi

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

— Trent Reznor

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won.…

— Sharon Stone

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months…

— Sigrid Agren

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

— Virginia Postrel

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new…

— Dean Karnazes

I was a loan coordinator at a mortgage company in Seattle. My roommate thought I should enter the contest, so we made…

— Amber Lancaster

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing…

— Kate DiCamillo

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define…

— Michael Ignatieff

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned.…

— Rob Zombie

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as…

— David Rakoff

Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe…

— Candice S. Miller

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from…

— Abraham Lincoln

Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone…

— Jake Owen

Well, to start, for me, at seven years old, I was on a television contest called 'The Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club.'…

— Leslie Uggams

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more…

— Brian Shaw

We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And…

— Jan de Bont

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

— Marilyn Manson

I don't want to train for every contest the way I do for the Fourth of July. It would be impossible.

— Joey Chestnut

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

— Takeru Kobayashi

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

— Dean Smith

I'm not scared of Tiger. I'm not scared to go head-to-head. I'm not scared to have a long-drive contest with him.

— John Daly

The most important thing in any contest is finding your rhythm and making your body work for you.

— Joey Chestnut

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

— Elaine Pagels

If I can train for a contest for a week, it's a guaranteed victory.

— Joey Chestnut

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

— Daniel Webster

My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.

— Parvathy

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.

— Stacy Keibler

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.

— Brenna Yovanoff

“There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“aware that he had lost some kind of contest but not entirely certain what it was.”

— Terry Pratchett

“It’s too bad Keefe isn’t here—you two could have a contest to see who whines the most.”

— Shannon Messenger

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.

— Mario Batali