Quotes About Prize

I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.

I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000.

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in tournaments is no laughing matter.

I was on a competitive 'Halo' team, and we would enter tournaments for money.

Tennis is not a contract sport and we really rely on the WTA and ATP tours to be up and running so players can earn prize money to make a living.

Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.

What women need to understand is that when a man considers a woman to be a prize, looks have very little to do with it. In the above example, it was a simple mind trick that goes like this: She acted like a prize, and then a funny thing happened. He completely forgot who he was looking at.

Act Like a Prize and You'll Turn Him into a Believer.

Craig leapt spryly out of the way. He was in a good mood. He'd just received an e-mail from Angel Resources informing him that he'd clinched another Angel of the Month award. The prize was pretty good this time: a coupon for a medium pizza of his choice. There was some fine print on the back of the coupon: deep-dish pies cost extra, he couldn't order more than three meat toppings, and the offer expired in fifteen days.

To set the cause above renown,To love the game beyond the prize,To honor, while you strike him down,The foe that comes with fearless eyes;To count the life of battle goodAnd dear the land that gave you birth,And dearer yet the brotherhoodThat binds the brave of all the earth.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

A woman] will need to prize her tenderness and be able to display it at appropriate times in order to prevent toughness from gaining total authority and to avoid becoming a mirror image of those men who value power above life, and control over love.

Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

Even a perfect understanding of failed love is the booby prize.

I reflected that the value of a work of art has no relation whatever to the pleasure it gives; indeed, the more I have dwelt upon the subject, the more I have come to prize austerity rather than luxuriance.

What motivated me to sign with the PFL was precisely the grand prix format, which gives you this great prize. One million dollars, that gets any person's or any athlete's attention.

Fucking Hallmark never wrote anything for how I felt then. When Metallica and the rest of the metal community pitched in to pay for Acrassicauda, the Iraqi heavy metal band, to move to the US is the only thing that comes close. And maybe the late-breaking success of Anvil. I had a toasty heart, especially after I got called back to pick up first prize for Miss Frizz. Ah, never mind. You know what I'm saying.

I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs, but of a million, with crowns, medals and ribbons—for a good, simple and intelligible definition of the word "Government." What an immense service it would confer on society!

Come on down! You're the next contestant on "The Price is Right."

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

which begs a question. What precisely is genius? I believe that genius is not a person but a process, a process in which someone determines to uncover their gift and, for a period, is able to step inside it. The "gift" is a self-explanatory state, and like a prize awarded in a DNA lotto—say, being born into beauty or into wealth—genius is no reason for arrogance.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.