Quotes About Rivalry

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

It's always been that opponents get down to business against Bayern specifically because they want to show how desperate they are to defeat the champions.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Eric Bischoff wanted to destroy Vince in the ratings, but we wanted them to stay in the game. We wanted it to be neck-and-neck. We didn't want to skunk the other team and spike the football every single time.

I always wanted to have that brother-sister rivalry type of stuff. So now I'm happy that at least Dream and King won't be the only child being super spoiled.

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

I don't ship anyone. I really don't. I'm not a shipper, but I'm all for men duking it out for a chick.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic.

Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was.

the FBI philosophy is, 'Whatever makes any other law enforcement agency or institution look bad makes us look better.

También explica por qué Gran Bretaña pudo superar a sus rivales ibéricos: precisamente porque, por ser una recién llegada a la carrera imperial, tuvo que dedicarse a colonizar los pocos prometedores páramos de Virginia y Nueva Inglaterra, antes que las ciudades de México y Perú, donde el saqueo estaba a la orden del día.

The aim of Cold War competition in the third world was not to win a contest between rival models of economic development but above all to fill(...) a spiritual void, for even Communism has made many more converts through the theological quality of Marxism than through the materialistic aspect on which it prides itself.

Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

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Francisco Sforza tuvo siempre por adversario a los Bracceschi, y se vigilaron mutuamente; al fin, Francisco volvió sus miras hacia la Lombardía, y Braccio hacia la Iglesia y el reino de Nápoles.

A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.

I'm a fan of many fighters but as soon as they start looking at me, the fighter in me comes out and I'm like, 'You better watch your damn mouth.'

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.