Quotes About Rivalry

With every great player in this league, it motivates you because you want to do well against them.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

But here, as on so many other occasions, the Lacedaemonians proved the most convenient people in the world for the Athenians to be at war with.

we are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can't they, now?

Farming may have been prompted by social competition, as rival groups competed to host the most lavish feasts; this might explain why, in some parts of the world, luxury foods appear to have been domesticated before staples.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

Just like two lions can't share a territory and so are two men.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Quando Einstein muore, Bohr, il suo grandissimo rivale, ha parole di commovente ammirazione. Quando pochi anni dopo muore Bohr, qualcuno prende una fotografia della lavagna nel suo studio: c'è un disegno. Rappresenta la «scatola piena di luce» dell'esperimento mentale di Einstein. Fino all'ultimo, la voglia di confrontarsi e capire di più. Fino all'ultimo, il dubbio.

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There's a drawing on it. A drawing of the "light-filled box" in Einstein's thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

I stare up at Nick. "You're late." .... "I had things to take care of," he says, all growly, looking away from me and staring Ian down. They do the whole I'm alpha - No, I'm alpha thing, with the staring and pulling the shoulders back and posturing. Devyn whispers to Issie, loud enough for us to hear. "They're so sad sometimes." She whispers back, "I know.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

By what right does the wolf judge the lion?

Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.