It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

- Abe Lemons

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

- Dominique Wilkins

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

- Epictetus

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

- Ernie Isley

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

- Frank Sinatra

Art has never been a popularity contest.

- James Levine

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

- Jimmy Piersall

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

- Kirk Gibson

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

- Lorrie Moore

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

- Ryan Sheckler

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

- Rob Dyrdek

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

- Sylvester Stallone