Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a lot tougher than I expected. What proved significant was that I was right there in the contest despite losing the first set.

Ben Gordon

It was set up for Andres and they read it well. He took a contested shot. But at that point we were just trying to get a shot off so we could get another opportunity at the ball.

Brevard did great. It was a very hard, hotly contested event.

Lobsang Wangyal

Even though the last date for receipt of applications for the Miss Tibet contest this year is June 30, we've already received five applications, which is encouraging.

Everything (Pratt) shot was contested and I thought David did a good job on him the whole game.

Someone told me there was a primary contest going on tonight, is that right? I love primary night, especially when I don't have one, ... If we work hard over the next eight weeks ... I'll tell you who the real winner's going to be on Nov. 8, the people of New York.

During King of Spring contest we moved up a couple of spots and we are now seventh in the nation.

Defensively, we tried to clog the middle so their big guys couldn't get in there, and we did a fairly decent job of that. We just didn't get out and contest shots.

The theme of the local poetry contest is to glorify God in some way. If we get all these kids thinking about God, they will transform their neighborhood, their city, maybe the world.

Steve Perry

Soon another test would come. He must be ready for it. So he sat, but it was not mindless meditation but mindful scheming that filled him. In a contest like this, there could be no second-place winner. To be second was to be last and to be last here was to be dead.

We have a fast pitch here, with lots of grass, and that will make for a good contest here. It will be good to see how good the batsmen on either side really are on this track.

This whole contest is just totally inappropriate because of the themes of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . It is simply a retelling of the story of Christ.

We knew he could shoot the 3. We were late sometimes getting out to contest the shot. He knocked it down, so I give him credit for making good shots.

They all are still really great shooters, so we still have to be able to go in and still contest shots. We can't leave anything wide open and can't take anything for granted.

We always light up the house. We always had contests there every year. When we moved here, we decided to continue the tradition. We lit up the house, and before we knew it, all the neighbors were doing it, too.

We've really been sound defensively for the last four or five games. We're noted for our offense, we have a lot of good offensive players, but you win championships with your defensive effort, and the defense was really good. We really contested the ball-handler.

We specialized it to run employee contests in the stores. We encouraged employees to go through the warehouse to find good items for sale on eBay.

We weren't playing smart at the defensive end. We have a senior lineup, and we have to pull out this type of game. We needed to contest that final shot and make her win it at the line. She struggled at the line.

James Baker

We will vigorously contest the efforts for a manual recount in Florida.

We won five of the 11 contested matches. And we forfeited three matches.

Byron Scott

We got stops, we forced them into some contested jump shots and we were able to rebound the ball. We just did what we do best, and that's try to get up and down the floor. That's how we play basketball.

Deborah Norville

The ladies who ran the contest said, 'Well honey, don't you sing while you sew or maybe you tap dance while you sew?' I said, 'No ma'am, I just sort of sit there.' That was not what they wanted to hear.

The contest went pretty well. Now we have to see how we do with a wedding.

In a political contest, there is a winner and a loser, and the winner does the things that he wants to do and loser doesn't do anything, ... Second in a political contest is also last.

I knew there was a contest because I listen to that station, but I had no idea that (Elaine) applied. I think it's great. I am very happy for them both.

Barry Alvarez

I liked the way the guys played. They were where they needed to be. They contested throws. They responded to a tough week and that's what I like to see. They didn't go into the tank. They didn't put their tail between their legs. They responded.

Dick Gephardt

strongly supporting everything that's being done in this contest by the Gore-Lieberman ticket.

A contestant must be a resident of Geneva County or a member of one of our senior centers.

I took a photo just for last year's contest and placed second. That got me motivated and really started it all.

It wasn't because they were shooting lousy; they were contested shots. I thought we played pretty well. We handled their pressure. You can't fault the girls. They played hard.

It was a great success. This contest is supposed to be fun and it was fun.

They're all very sweet and to me, they're all winners. It takes a lot for a person to enter a contest like this.

O. Henry

In the last 20 years, all these spots and sales promotions and contests were designed to deliver to advertisers, but we've lost sight of the fact that we have to get the listeners first.