B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:30
Speaker 1
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan
Speaker 2
"I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time." - Michael Jordan
"If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough." - Mario Andretti
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." - John Madden
Speaker 3
"It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant
"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." - Jerry West
"Make each day your masterpiece." - John Wooden
Speaker 4
"To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them." - Picabo Street
"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning." - Pelé
"Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." - Michael Jordan
Speaker 5
"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." - Steve Young
"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between." - Pat Riley
"If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win." - Carl Lewis
Speaker 6
"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Serena Williams
Round 2 - 1:15
Speaker 1
"Hope will never be silent." - Harvey Milk
"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity." - George Takei
"The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well." - Cassandra Duffy
Speaker 2
"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." - Rita Mae Brown
"Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts." - Barbara Gittings
"We are powerful because we have survived." - Audre Lorde
Speaker 3
"I don't want to be remembered for being gay. I want to be remembered for being a great boxer and a great humanitarian." - Orlando Cruz
"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." - Harvey Milk
"You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others." - Myles Horton
Speaker 4
"I am what I am, and what I am needs no excuses." - Gloria Gaynor
"If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?" - RuPaul
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." - Audre Lorde
Speaker 5
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." - Audre Lorde
"If you're not willing to fight for it, then you don't really deserve it." - Gavin Newsom
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein
Speaker 6
"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown
"I am what I am, and I know what I know. I have no interest in being perfect, and I have no interest in being who you think I should be." - Peter Buttigieg
"I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act." - Janet Mock
Final Rd - 2:45
Speaker 1
Stop worrying what other people think. They’re awful.
I’m capable of making good decisions but I seem to keep making bad ones.
This will pass. And then some other bad thing will come and take its place.
Speaker 2
Stop worrying about the things you can’t control – like your emotions.
Have a panic attack. You’ve earned it.
Let go of the things that no longer serve you – like your personality.
Speaker 3
Is it love, or do you just need medical insurance?
It not imposter syndrome. You really do suck at everything.
You are good enough. Until someone better comes along.
Speaker 4
Just be yourself, but not the real one. Try the online version.
Some days are better than others. Today is not one of them.
Don’t be sad that it’s over. Be sad because you messed it up.
Speaker 5
It’s ok if you aren’t where you wanted to be by now. No one even expected you to get this far.
You are capable of anything, and that terrifies me.
You are doing the best you can, which is kinda embarrassing.
Speaker 6
Stop romanticizing the past. It wasn’t good then either.
No one is coming to save you. You are the adult.
They say your new life is going to cost you your old one, as if it has any trade in value at this point.
Speaker 7
Disappointed? That’s what you get for expecting things.
Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes the reason is that you made bad choices.
Stop overthinking. You are the only one who cares.
Final Rd - 4:15
Speaker 1
"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
Speaker 2
"We should not have to choose between one person's freedoms and another person's safety." - Roxane Gay
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
Speaker 3
"I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you like something, like it." - Lizzo
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
"The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first." - Iyanla Vanzant
Speaker 4
"Power's not given to you. You have to take it." - Beyoncé
"I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself." - Emma Stone
"We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead." - Beyoncé
Speaker 5
"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back." - Malala Yousafzai
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
"I can't be a singular expression of myself. There's too many parts, too many spaces... too many manifestations." - Solange Knowles
Speaker 6
"Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you." - Hillary Clinton
"Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives." - Michelle Obama
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
Speaker 7
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman.” — Melinda French Gates.
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” — Margaret Thatcher.
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel