Competition Quote by Ian Rankin

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

— Tracy Austin

When I was about 18, I started playing restaurants for £150 a night. I felt like a millionaire.

— Sam Fender

From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden we had…

— Jimmy White

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

— Tom Lehman

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

— Philip Warren Anderson

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a…

— Noah Wyle

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the…

— Joshua Lederberg

When I came to Arsenal, I was on a scholarship earning £80 per week away from my family.

— Wojciech Szczesny

I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had my fees…

— Alice Roberts

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow…

— Jennifer Egan

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

— Marguerite Young