Top 50 Contests Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Contests Quotes from famous people such as Rebecca Traister, Michael Mandelbaum, Ricky Hatton, James S. Coleman, Eddie Van Halen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of ve

The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie – the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents.
Rebecca Traister
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Michael Mandelbaum
Because of my style, I always make hard work of my contests.
Ricky Hatton
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
James S. Coleman
I can’t read music. Instead, I’d do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize – out of like 5,000 kids!
Eddie Van Halen
Contests, I used to look at as a chance to fail. I turned my mind-set around.
Scotty Lago
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
Saint Ambrose
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson
Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don’t pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.
James Carville
I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding – I did well in a few national contests.
The Ultimate Warrior
In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions – ranging from contests of taste to those of technique – The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.
Adam Richman
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
Stephen J. Field
People say I’m a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that’s because I judge contests. Perhaps I’m more of a celebrity eater than a cook.
Prue Leith
I love to eat internationally and do eating contests everywhere. Traveling around, meeting people, and doing different things.
Joey Chestnut
Daily fantasy sports operators claim that they operate legally under Alabama law. However, paid daily fantasy sports contests are, in fact, illegal gambling under Alabama law.
Luther Strange
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
James A. Garfield
At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.
Rob Dyrdek
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we’re desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
John Podhoretz
Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
Bud Grant
I used to write three- and four-part harmonies for my YWCA club in high school. We used to win all the song contests. But people would say, ‘Look who her father is. He probably did the whole thing.’
Nancy Sinatra
Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.
Shweta Menon
Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.
David Brock
The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they’re not relevant in our world.
Rob Dyrdek
The problem I see with most contests is that the people judging have never competed in a bodybuilding contest. I feel that to have the knowledge necessary to judge a bodybuilding competition, you must have walked in those shoes.
Rich Piana
Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market – precursor to today’s farmers’ markets – and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.
Joel Salatin
Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen.
Scott Coker
Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
Clarence Thomas
I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting – both are popularity contests, and in both you’re trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.
James Franco
I’ve been asked to do ‘American Idol’ and ‘X Factor.’ I’m an Ed McMahon kind of girl. ‘Star Search?’ I’m in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn’t oversaturated with karaoke contests.
Pink
Even my most physical matches in New Japan have all bee

Even my most physical matches in New Japan have all been athletic contests, and generally, they’ve all been fair and square. It’s been this new, strong style we’ve been trying to create in New Japan, with my own personal style.
Kenny Omega
I don’t agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn’t embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
Lynda Carter
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer’s art, but as a general exercise.
John Boyle O’Reilly
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
There is no point in winning contests if you can’t leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.
Gautam Gambhir
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Morihei Ueshiba
I inherited Mom’s verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school – and won every essay contest I ever entered.
Joel Salatin
I don’t care at all about the mainstream; I don’t care about popularity contests; I don’t care about who’s got the biggest-selling album; and I don’t care about glossy production.
Phil Anselmo
You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I’m lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.
Mark Kurlansky
When I started doing contests, I didn’t look at it as a sport, but when I realized I was looking at it that way, I had to acknowledge it as a sport.
Joey Chestnut
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Matt Blunt
My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal – get book published – we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms – either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.
Kresley Cole
The elaborate sets and the theme of Halloween Havoc as a whole is what I think really caught the attention of the fans. Add in the explosive contests we had every year at the event, and it was definitely the perfect precursor to Starrcade.
Diamond Dallas Page
I’m from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.
Morgan Ortagus
My job isn’t to win popularity contests.
Betsy DeVos
When I got into rap I didn’t exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
Dee Dee Ramone
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We’d walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
Florence Griffith Joyner
I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.
Al Jourgensen
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne