Quotes About Contest

You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.

I am not a politician. I contested to get Modi ji another seat.

I'll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then... it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball... then I'd get my shot.

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

Politics, as the cliche goes, is a full contact sport. When you choose to play, you're going to get hurt.

I participated in Grasim's Mr. India contest in 2006. That's how it all started for me.

I want to be part of the three-point contest.

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

All my life, everything has been a contest.

When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

I was awful my first time. I was so shy eating in front of people. It was so awkward. But my next contest, I brought a bunch of my family out, and I won that one. I remember I almost barfed because my mom, at the end of the contest, she yelled out, 'Do it for Mama!' Everybody laughed. It was one of the closest I've ever been to barfing.

When I was getting ready for a contest I was not thinking size, I was thinking I want to come in shredded, so shredded that people are going to be shocked.

The 2009 World Championship Duck Calling Contest, I won.

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.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.