Quotes About Rivalry

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

There is something special about the early stages of an Ashes Test. There is this unique buzz.

It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother. That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to, though.

People talk about the history of Manchester United or Liverpool, but look what Arsenal achieved with the team of Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

The United States and China are competitors. And there is nothing wrong with competition.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

So it - we have one enduring, uh, idea that will always live on with the Smothers Brothers, that 'Mom always liked you best.' We're the universal, uh, feeling that every child, every sibling has had somewhere along the line. Or, 'Who did she like best?' And that became kind of a little mantra.

Tommy Burns was a brilliant human being. One of the biggest compliments ever paid to me was that I was to Celtic supporters what Tommy was to Rangers supporters. You're not universally loved, far from it, but you are accepted.

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

The press seems to love pitting women against each other.

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.