I Could Have Been A Contender Quotes

#1. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Budd Schulberg

#2. I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.

Simon R. Green

#3. I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender

Jackson Browne

#4. I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.

Clay Matthews III

#5. What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story; This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.

Peter Bradshaw

#6. I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

Budd Schulberg