Quotes About Rivalry

When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.

When I was playing, it wasnt even close. Arsenal were the team to beat when you turned off the North Circular.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

When you come to the Bernabeu, you have to be very superior to Madrid in order to win.

I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody until you've gotten into a good fight, and I think that's the situation with Superman and Batman.

My siblings' first songs in Bollywood - 'Baabuji Zara Dheere' and 'Saawan Aaya Hai' were huge hits. There is no rivalry between us, and we love and support each other.

I'll never play in Barcelona, because in Spain I am a Real Madrid supporter.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

I have felt like a 'juventino' since I set foot here. Here, you have 12 million supporters; everyone else has their team and then roots against us.

No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.

One of the reasons Old Firm supporters could relate to me was I was one of them, playing for the team I wanted to play for. If we scored at Celtic Park, the only people I wanted to celebrate in front of was Rangers supporters.

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

I love how snowboarding is like no other sport out there - I mean, some of my best friends are my biggest competitors. And we just cheer each other on. It's a very supportive sport.

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.

I don't want to surpass Messi.

the enemy of our enemy is our ally

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

MARIA. Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable — but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable. — We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other — but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

It's a shame you know, he called over his shoulder. What's a shame? Duncan asked. That I didn't capture her first. Duncan smiled. Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.

they'd become good friends before they were old enough to understand they were supposed to be enemies...

I wonder whether the nation itself is not an enormous mask intolerant of the rivalry of individual masks.