Life Quote by Philip Warren Anderson

Prizefighter changed my life in so many ways, and I was dying to go into it despite me being the least experienced.

— Rocky Fielding

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

— Anonymous

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd…

— Tony Curtis

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

— Debbie Reynolds

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

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

— Tracy Austin

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

— Maria Goeppert-Mayer

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

— Bill Nighy

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

— Ian Rankin

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.

— Bill Nighy

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