Famous Quotes & Sayings

Prakash Karat

Usually the party state secretary does not contest elections.

We are hoping that all four Indian winners of Miss World and Miss Universe contests will be there.

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

John Brady

We did a nice job of handling the first five to seven minutes of the game. We told our guys Duke was going to come out in those first few minutes and try to get us on our heels and that if we could work through that we'd be in good shape. That's what happened. A tone was set and I think they knew they were in for a contest all night.

We did a much better job of contesting his shots. He did a really good job at creating space and was able to knock down a few shots, but with Speedy, you want to try and make him into a jump shooter first, but you have to contest those shots.

We did a good job on the defensive end of making them take contested shots. Defensively, I thought we did a good job to start the second half.

Kobe Bryant

We didn't match it. We didn't contest their shots.

The mayor's race is really what drives people to come out to the polls, and without it, it's hard to get people excited. This is the first time in my memory that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have had a contested primary for mayor.

Livy

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

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.

To me it looks like these legislators are simply covering their tails because they know how hotly contested this has been and they made perhaps some unpopular votes with their decisions last session.

Lindy Ruff

As far as mishandling the puck, it was a contest between Eddie and Marty, and I think Eddie was worse than Marty,

Elena Hight

Dropping in, I was more nervous than I've ever been at a contest before. Once you're snowboarding, it's what we do every day, so it (the nervousness) kind of goes away.

Essay, Mr. Sterling. I'm talking about a statewide essay contest for New York kids. The winner will be used in all your ads.

Randy Foye

Florida did a great job finding our shooters, defending the three-point line. Every time we took a shot, they made sure it was a contested shot.

Randy Foye

Every time we took a shot, it was a contested shot. They made sure every shot we took was not an easy one.

Ronda Rousey

See, for some reason, I feel like it's a victory if I wake up one minute before the alarm. It's like I'm in a contest with myself, with my foot kicking around until it wakes up the rest of my body. It's the stupidest thing. But it makes me feel like I've already won something.

Rachel created a powerful PSA that focuses on Internet safety from a youth's point of view. This contest enabled students to use their creativity and writing skills to educate families throughout the nation about staying safer and protecting themselves from abduction and sexual exploitation.

At our twentieth reunion, we had a picnic at Cascade Park. It was 1951 and most of us had little kids. There were games and contests and it was a lot of fun.

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.

Jackson Katz

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

This contest, I think, is really important because writing is the most difficult thing for people to do. The purpose of this contest is to have fun with writing to put the imagination on paper.

Al Gore

This is an endurance contest and who ever gets the nomination has to be able to win in a wide range of places.

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.

You want every shot he takes to be contested over a hand, and you don't want to let him get anything easy. Because a scorer like that, if you let him get something easy, it really gets him going. Then he's more comfortable making tougher shots.

This is the first time we've had a good contested race in the time I've been here,

They have been in every game except one. When Copley and Revere get together, you just throw out the records. It's always a hotly contested game.

Allan Ray

They have a couple of great shooters, and we have to get out and contest their shots. And they have a big guy down low that is going to be a handful.

You don't get into a pissing contest with a skunk and I got in with a few skunks and I didn't win.

There were a couple of 3s that were contested and we had a hand in his face, but he hit them anyway.

It's just a fog to me right now. I'm not sure if it was contested or not. I was able to shoot it like a normal shot, though.