Top 135 Contests Quotes & Sayings

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

I travel pretty much every weekend of the summer. And then during the winter, I still do appearances and a couple contests here and there.

Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was to fundamentally rewire people, communities, civil society, business, and the state — through thicker, stronger, more meaningful relationships. That's where the future of media lies.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

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.

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 skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

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.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help their citizens.

A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

Because of my style, I always make hard work of my contests.

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

I am not a contest-enterer by nature. But contests - and their entry fees - are often the main way literary journals raise money to, you know, publish their issues. So entering contests helps support the journal, which also helps support the writers they publish.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

Contests, I used to look at as a chance to fail. I turned my mind-set around.

There is no point in winning contests if you can't leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.

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.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

I love to eat internationally and do eating contests everywhere. Traveling around, meeting people, and doing different things.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

The problem I see with most contests is that the people judging have never competed in a bodybuilding contest. I feel that to have the knowledge necessary to judge a bodybuilding competition, you must have walked in those shoes.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

When I started doing contests, I didn't look at it as a sport, but when I realized I was looking at it that way, I had to acknowledge it as a sport.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.

The elaborate sets and the theme of Halloween Havoc as a whole is what I think really caught the attention of the fans. Add in the explosive contests we had every year at the event, and it was definitely the perfect precursor to Starrcade.

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 wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.

Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

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.

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.

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

When I signed with WWE I was really happy that they had the PG thing going on. I thought, 'Yes! No more bra and panties matches, no bikini contests.'

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen.

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.

I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.

People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.