Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some of these fellows are CEOs. They're attorneys. They're doctors. They're big shots in industry. They have big egos. They have one of these contests and lose, you don't see them anymore.

That'd be like a home run hitting contest where you don't hit it out and you get to do it over until you do hit it out. Thank God he finally made one.

That contest was a real challenge. I don't really cook with convenience products.

Our team has grown up a little bit. We had some great contests when they had some looks, we got some big rebounds and we hit some very important free throws down the stretch. That's a team that's maturing.

Our goal is just to contest every shot and then rebound. We are pretty long, and if we can just get a hand up on every shot, it makes it tough for teams to score. We try to play sound defense and just get a lot of deflections and stay active.

Chauncey Billups

Rip did a great job on him, that was his assignment. He contested a lot of his shots.

Flip Saunders

Rip did a good job of understanding where help might be, tried to send him to as much help as he could and contested pretty much most of his shots.

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.

I still have the letter seating on my desk. I was so excited when I got it because I wanted to be on the show for such a long time. It was the first time I tried out for it and I got lucky. I enjoyed the thrill of it all. I was also the youngest contestant on the show during that week.

I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots.

I thought it was a hotly contested game. I thought our guys battled hard, played hard throughout the whole game. ... It definitely was not a 16-point game.

Stephen Jackson

He (Crawford) didn't have enough time to pass so I knew he was going to shoot. I just tried to contest the shot. I contested it and he hit the shot.

Having a contested race is probably a tribute to our population growth. There may be a general feeling that 16 years is long enough and is tough for chance. An elected office is not supposed to be permanent." ()

He just hit a shot. It was contested and he hit the shot. Nothing you can do. We were in what we wanted to be in. The kid made it.

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.

Because of the weather (rain) in the previous contests versus Hamilton and Browning, we weren't able to run the option that much. It opens the outside running game when teams load that many defenders near the line of scrimmage. It's the part of our offense that we need to run.

I felt Nikki was trying to take over the game when they were up six. The thing we were able to do was put a few more inches on Nikki down the stretch, wall her off and contest the 3. That helped us, thank goodness.

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.

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 was actually an image pulled from our logo, and we had a contest to name him. We thought he would make for a great mascot.