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Quotes About Challenger

Of course we have respect for the rival.
~ Casemiro
For us, the BSP is like any other rival.
~ Sushma Swaraj
We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
~ Christa McAuliffe
Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
~ Ron Fournier
Every challenger has come forward and said he's going to challenge me and win because I'm out of touch with the constituents. We run a race, the election comes, and the majority of voters disagree with them.
~ Scott Garrett
I'm the bad guy of the division.
~ Colby Covington
You can't beat somebody with nobody.
~ Jack Abramoff
If the incumbent or his party has been discredited sufficiently, the challenger can run a successful, content-free campaign.
~ H. W. Brands
Then he froze. There, parked on the tarmac, was Diogenes's Challenger. "Stop," he told Shapely. "But—" "Just stop." Diogenes reached into his bag, pulled out another few stacks of hundred-
~ Douglas Preston
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
~ William Thackeray
I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.
~ Joey Gathright
I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.
~ Martina Hingis
Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.
~ Bobby Schilling
If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
~ Mark McKinnon
I'm an old-school guy. I'm a competitor.
~ Paul Pierce
Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.
~ Bill Kristol
I'll welcome any competitor, no problem.
~ Tan Cheng Bock
I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, 'I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.' And sadly, that's apparently a victory here in a place like southern West Virginia.
~ Richard Ojeda
For me, I prefer to be the heel.
~ Chael Sonnen
I don't think of us as defending ourselves. I think of us as a challenger, an attacker.
~ Ana Patricia Botin
Yamada might be a good general—Mat did not know—but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.
~ Robert Jordan
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.
~ Martin Rees
When Labour leadership challenger Jess Phillips urged men to 'pass the mic' to a woman on the top job, telling Sky's Sophy Ridge it would 'look bad' if Labour failed to elect a woman, she more or less admitted not being up to the job.
~ Claire Fox
My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
~ Bo Jackson