Contest Quotes
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I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.
Kirk Gibson -
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
Zach LaVine
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It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
Abe Lemons -
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
Blaise Pascal -
I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
Gary Bettman -
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.
Liam Fox -
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.
Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
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You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
Epictetus -
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
Abraham Lincoln -
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 my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.
Abraham Lincoln -
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.
Abraham Lincoln -
The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.
William Rainey Harper -
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
Ree Drummond
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I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
Alexander the Great -
Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
Catherine Sanderson -
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Ishmael Reed -
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
Adolf Hitler -
All you can do is contest him. If you contest his shots, then hopefully he'll miss them.
Bobby Simmons -
I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.
Andrew Evans
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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Geoff Gaberino -
All of life is a contest. The weak against the strong - the stupid against the clever - the honest against the dishonest.
Betty MacDonald -
Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
Seth Godin -
All language is a popularity contest.
Erin McKean