Quotes About Rivalry

Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.

There is always great significance playing against India, and it is always special and a treat for people in both countries.

I've always been very competitive - that runs in our family. I'd always try to beat my brother. I'd race the boys and wanted to beat them. They toughened me up. They didn't treat me like a girl.

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

A long time ago Darren had said that bears and wolves weren't meant to get along. I thought he'd been talking about state troopers, though. This

It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our claws out for the same seat. The thing will have to be done carefully or we'll end up with out tidy little Whig house divided." "Why don't you take turns?" "It's worth thinking about, but no matter how much you'd like politics to be a cotillion it just naturally wants to be a dirt fight.

By 2001, however, India was decoupling from its long rivalry with Pakistan. India's economy was booming. Its generals and foreign policy strategists professed to be more concerned about China than about their dysfunctional sibling neighbor to the west. Yet the Pakistan Army used fear of India as a justification for dominating Pakistan's politics.

Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins." "I will kill twenty!" Lydia declared. "I will kill thirty!" Kitty countered. Mary paused for a moment of sober calculation. "I will kill thirty-two." she said. "I will kill as long as I must," said Jane. "And I will kill as long as I can," said Elizabeth

If there's one thing Eagles and Giants fans can agree on, it's a mutual disdain for Skip Bayless.

The world's most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn't let us win at Monopoly... he wouldn't cut any slack for his children. My sister's also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.

I don't want to say which guard it was with the Bulls, but I would take the ball and he would come to me and say, 'You are taking my bread.' I didn't know the slang.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.

The Klitschkos have ruled for too long and I can't wait to get into the ring in Germany and smash the living daylights out of Wladimir first. Vitali is waiting in the background and I'll deal with him once I've dealt with Wladimir.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

There's something really fun about being a kicker. Once you get to 200 to go and you're still with those girls, you smell blood.

On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.