Famous Quotes & Sayings

This whole contest is just totally inappropriate because of the themes of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . It is simply a retelling of the story of Christ.

Byron Scott

We got stops, we forced them into some contested jump shots and we were able to rebound the ball. We just did what we do best, and that's try to get up and down the floor. That's how we play basketball.

Randy Foye

Every time we took a shot, it was a contested shot. They made sure every shot we took was not an easy one.

We've really been sound defensively for the last four or five games. We're noted for our offense, we have a lot of good offensive players, but you win championships with your defensive effort, and the defense was really good. We really contested the ball-handler.

We specialized it to run employee contests in the stores. We encouraged employees to go through the warehouse to find good items for sale on eBay.

We weren't playing smart at the defensive end. We have a senior lineup, and we have to pull out this type of game. We needed to contest that final shot and make her win it at the line. She struggled at the line.

James Baker

We will vigorously contest the efforts for a manual recount in Florida.

We won five of the 11 contested matches. And we forfeited three matches.

No. 1, I think we gotta keep them off the glass. And we can't let them get open looks. You gotta contest shots. If we contest shots and control the boards, it's anybody's game.

Because of the weather (rain) in the previous contests versus Hamilton and Browning, we weren't able to run the option that much. It opens the outside running game when teams load that many defenders near the line of scrimmage. It's the part of our offense that we need to run.

Now when a guy drives baseline, that's how I wanna to see you jump and contest the shot.

Great second half. If you look at the details and you see they only got three field goals in the second half and we held them to 11 percent shooting, you have to win games. I told them they'd better play defense and they did. We played much harder and contested every shot.

Lamar Alexander

Give him credit for winning the pre-season. His strategy is to make sure that the contest never gets to the people. My strategy is to make sure it does.

Helen White

I entered the contest to tell people about how I got inspired, and how I try to inspire other people. It's about finding strength and motivation to go for your goals and dreams.

Bob Parsons

Go Daddy(R) gives money away all the time. We do it with contests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. A happy employee is a productive employee, no doubt about it. Giving more than people expect is one of my favorite parts of the job.

She does have some aspirations to be an artist. She's participated in a duck painting contest and got a ribbon for it.

She didn't say anything, her teacher didn't say anything, the mother didn't say anything. So the contest proceeded.

She's a good player. She's going to get her points, we just need to make it as tough as possible for her and contest every shot.

I felt Nikki was trying to take over the game when they were up six. The thing we were able to do was put a few more inches on Nikki down the stretch, wall her off and contest the 3. That helped us, thank goodness.

Andy Lee

Before they had dance contests and pie eating contests ... it's not like it used to be.

LeBron James

I don't pre-determine what I'm going to do. That's why I'm not a good dunk contest participant. I don't know what I'm going to do until I jump.

Leyla Milani

I didn't expect that! The hardest working, most dedicated Diva Search contestant in 2005.

I didn't see what happened in the stands, I was watching what was happening on the court. It was a hotly contested game.

Largo was just so aggressive. They contested every rebound and every pass. We just didn't match up very well.

That'd be like a home run hitting contest where you don't hit it out and you get to do it over until you do hit it out. Thank God he finally made one.

That contest was a real challenge. I don't really cook with convenience products.

That epic contest was not sold out. There were unsold seats in Yankee Stadium.

My work was having a contest to see who could lose the most weight.

I still have the letter seating on my desk. I was so excited when I got it because I wanted to be on the show for such a long time. It was the first time I tried out for it and I got lucky. I enjoyed the thrill of it all. I was also the youngest contestant on the show during that week.

I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots.

I thought it was a hotly contested game. I thought our guys battled hard, played hard throughout the whole game. ... It definitely was not a 16-point game.

William Cowper

Great contest follows, and much learned dust / Involves the combatants.

I don't see it as a contest or keeping score or a concentrated effort. I see it as an opportunity to recognize two important political figures.