Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you see a combination like that, you just have to pick your poison. We wanted to take away their drives and contest the post.

We didn't contest shots (in the first half). In the second half we contested shots and they missed.

We've always done trivia. It's tradition. And we also have football bingo, a food contest and plenty of Dollar Store prizes. It's kind of like another holiday for us.

We got what we wanted, a contested shot at the end.

We're going to have to get out and contest their shots. This is a huge game for them and we expect them to play their guts out.

Arlen Specter

We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.

Takeru Kobayashi

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

The Prince and Princess of Dickens contest has been extended through the end of September. We currently have 10 contestants.

The prime minister has decided to contest the result and to use a 'mutilated victory' as a long-term weapon.

She does have some aspirations to be an artist. She's participated in a duck painting contest and got a ribbon for it.

She didn't say anything, her teacher didn't say anything, the mother didn't say anything. So the contest proceeded.

She's a good player. She's going to get her points, we just need to make it as tough as possible for her and contest every shot.

Great second half. If you look at the details and you see they only got three field goals in the second half and we held them to 11 percent shooting, you have to win games. I told them they'd better play defense and they did. We played much harder and contested every shot.

Lamar Alexander

Give him credit for winning the pre-season. His strategy is to make sure that the contest never gets to the people. My strategy is to make sure it does.

Just try to make him take tough shots and don't let him get any free looks. We just got to be there to contest their shots and not let them get anything easy.

I think it'll be a good proxy for a popularity contest for James Cramer.

I think it all worked out pretty good. I didn't do any work so I wasn't going to try to win the stage. The others had worked, so I wasn't going to try to contest the sprint.

I was kind of a frustrated cook. Being at home with the kids I wasn't working so I thought what if I enter a contest and win $50,000? Wouldn't that be cool. So I just tried it.

I was just trying to stay in front of him and use my lift to contest him. I didn't think I did that good of a job, because I fouled out.

Largo was just so aggressive. They contested every rebound and every pass. We just didn't match up very well.

Jason Richardson

I thought we were having a contest on who could get to 50 first.

It is a forum in which developing countries have to struggle in an uneven and unequal contest with powerful vested interests in developed countries.

It is going to be a contest of giants,

Laser made a great play. It was a contested 3 from long range and he made a big shot.

Lafayette gave us fits in the first half. They can really score some points. I was happy with how we played in the zone. We were smart and were able to contest the people we were supposed to contest. We stopped the bleeding.

We're proud of the job our schools have done in keeping pace with technology and preparing students for success in a technology-dominated world. This contest reflects our high school students' achievements, and recognizes the talents they have developed.

We suited up eight girls for the contest and those eight played their hearts out. Early foul trouble on three of our starters forced us to back off the defensive pressure early, but it was 16 missed free throws that ultimately cost us the game.

Chris Rock

Have you been watching American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Paula Abdul?! Gettin' Paula Abdul to judge a singin' contest is like gettin' Christopher Reeve to judge a dance contest!

Helen White

I entered the contest to tell people about how I got inspired, and how I try to inspire other people. It's about finding strength and motivation to go for your goals and dreams.

Bob Parsons

Go Daddy(R) gives money away all the time. We do it with contests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. A happy employee is a productive employee, no doubt about it. Giving more than people expect is one of my favorite parts of the job.

Janet Evanovich

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

He had shots. But they were making sure every shot was a contested shot.

Scott Drew

He hit the big 3, a contested 3. In games like this, it comes down to who makes the big shot. He hit a big shot.