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Quotes About Rivalry

Curse you Kakarrot!
~ Akira Toriyama
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
~ Al Michaels
People often talk about George Best and Alex Higgins as two similar personalities... but the truth is that Best did not like Alex.
~ John Virgo
I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.
~ Rick Pitino
I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.
~ Bozoma Saint John
Back home, the Iron Bowl isn't just a football game, it's a phenomenon.
~ Walker Hayes
Everyone's talking about Phil Davis and what he did in college. It's an accomplishment to win an NCAA title. I don't want to discredit that. But I believe if I would have wrestled him in college, I would have beat him.
~ Rashad Evans
Philadelphia is a football town. Boston is a baseball town.
~ Howie Long
Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.
~ Rona Barrett
You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.
~ Isaiah Thomas
Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That's just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
You're never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he's done in this state, trying to pit the city of Chicago against the rest of Illinois - I'll never agree with anything Bruce Rauner says.
~ Lori Lightfoot
If there's anyone who's against Wall Street, it's Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, who basically lives off of the funding from Wall Street.
~ Paul Manafort
I've played in Birmingham and Manchester where there are supporters of rival clubs too. You have to adjust to your surroundings. You can't go wandering around Glasgow in the wrong areas. As a Celtic player you can't do that.
~ Dion Dublin
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
~ Nicki Minaj
I don't wanna fight a street fighter.
~ Tito Ortiz
Taller people get very competitive. When I meet someone who's close to me or taller, I'm straight up; I don't wanna be smaller than them.
~ Kristian Nairn
As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.
~ JaVale McGee
It was just one of those things that, you know, you get to the NBA and have success and you just wanna play against the best, you don't wanna play with the best.
~ Shawn Kemp
I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
~ Bob Crosby
I don't think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me - really, anything Texas is playing - without wanting to punch me in the face. I'm as big a Longhorn fan as you'll find.
~ Jordan Spieth
My sister and I fought a lot when we were kids. I was the little bratty sister, and she would kind of walk away, not wanting to be associated with me.
~ Annette Bening
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Andre Ward got the chance to fight Sergey Kovalev twice. Triple G and Canelo are fighting again. People are getting paid to play king of the hill again.
~ Roy Jones Jr.