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I’d much rather be in this position where people might be talking about me as a contender than turning up and sort of being a no-show.
If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.
I’ve had a great run. I’ve been a world champ. I’ve been a top contender. I’ve been a poster boy for the organization, for sponsorships, been able to do a lot.
I can’t keep fighting and being the No. 1 contender for years.
I called out Rafael Dos Anjos in Brazil, so he could be a potential contender. People don’t talk about Jorge Masvidal enough. He’d be a great fight: he comes to fight.
Something’s bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you’re a champ or you’re a contender.
It’s a goal of mine to be a contender every week.
All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as ‘the richest, freest’ country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and – among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom – probably did deserve to be so described.
For me, to get any match is fine. For me to be thrown right into the mix and be named No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship is a blessing.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
Carmelo Anthony should do what makes him happy – either stay with the Knicks and be mediocre, or get with a contender and help them get over the hump.
I’m done thinking about, ‘I have to go up to be a title contender, I have to stress.’
They said if I’d fight a ranked contender, I’d get a title shot. I did that, and the next day they changed the rules.
It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.
I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in ‘The Last Castle’ and ‘The Contender.’ If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film.
I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.
Obviously UFC was one of those kind of dreams that we weren’t sure if we were ever going to reach, so for us, the biggest belt was the Cage Contender belt.
Every team that goes into training camp thinks they’re a Super Bowl contender.
We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
I believe if I beat ‘Jacare’ I’m going to be a contender for the title shot.
My first MMA fight was July 2006 here in Brazil. I won a few fights here in Brazil, and then I got a chance to fight in the UFC, but they put me against the number one contender for the title at that time. It was Fabricio Werdum.
I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.
Robert Pattinson is an incredibly gifted actor. Every role that Pattinson plays is a contender for an acting award.
There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn’t happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn’t getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost.
If the fights that I take make sense, and there is not a 27-year-old number one contender in the world, then I’ll probably be interested in doing fights that make sense and fights that are marketable.
What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you’re capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you’re a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That’s my objective in Tottenham.
As a World Champion, it is important that you face the #1 contender. That is what makes it sport and not entertainment; otherwise, what are the girls fighting at 145 lbs. training to work towards if they know they will never be given a title shot, even if they become the best in the world?
The Democrats always scream ‘racism’ at a Republican contender in any field across the country.
There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really changed. Films like ‘The Contender’ and ‘Bulworth’ seem quaint compared with Trump!
A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.
To be a contender in the Big Ten a squad must have a solid player at every position.
If Amanda Nunes truly wants an opportunity at the 145-lb. belt, a win against any ranked contender in that division would help establish her back in a weight class she left before fighting me.
It’s a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It’s an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I’m a contender!
Everybody knows the day I beat Diego Chaves, I became the WBA interim world titlist, which made me the No. 1 contender for whomever was the WBA titlist.
The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of ‘The Naked and the Dead’ and American literature’s leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of ‘The Village Voice.’
Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He’s no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he’s got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.
I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It’s about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender.
I knew I was a world champion and a top contender at the highest level for over a decade, but I think I’ll be remembered as somebody that was an ambassador for the sport, someone who helped build something bigger than myself, and also for the team I’ve been able to build.
Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the person who is a serious contender to become head of state. They want their national leader – the tribal chief – to look like them, to live like them, to reflect their values.
