Contests Quotes

335 quotes by 287 authors

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big… — Buddy Rich
Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players… — Greg Chappell
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of… — Ricardo Semler
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and… — Abraham Lincoln
One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest.… — Charles Kelley
There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held… — Ulysses S. Grant
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor… — Ulysses S. Grant
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Unknown Author
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind — Roy Keane
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. — Lisa See
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a… — Matt Blunt
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy… — Akhenaton
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women… — Karl Lagerfeld
Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. — Charlie Munger
You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random.… — David Rakoff
I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life… — Jack LaLanne
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be… — Wade Schalles
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you… — Anna Deavere Smith

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