Contenders Quotes

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

(T-Mobile`s Jan Ullrich and CSC`s Ivan Basso, two the great contenders for next year`s Tour de France, didn`t mingle with the top ten of the race. Both came in with the peloton nearly one minute after the winner, and finished 45th and 59th respectively.) You start to feel that the power missing, ... The season has been long, and the legs start to get heavy.

Even though they won`t finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

We just saw the two best contenders fight each other. I told everybody that this would be a great fight. We both traveled the long road to get here, and he wasn`t going to give up.

That`s definitely not the way to start a season. Taking out four contenders is a tough way to start a season.

It`s definitely not the way to start the season, with three or four championship contenders taken out in the first turn.

Having Jon on our side has made the team so much stronger. It has made us real contenders for the Euro title.

We invite all Canadians who share their names with any of the contenders for Canada`s next prime minister to take advantage of this great offer and fly free on Tuesday, January 24, 2006.

We stress a lot on us. We believe that if we stick to our game plan and play our game, we`re contenders. We put a lot more stress on our game than whoever we are playing.

This puts me back, ... I`m already in the top 10 in both The Ring and the IBF, but this just puts me back as a serious player in the minds of all contenders and champions and challengers.