Quotes About Rivalry

I grew up watching North American sport - basketball, hockey - so I like it when it's a little bit more energetic, rowdier, heckling either for you or against you. I think it's fun to have that in sport.

The thing is, I don't hate North Carolina. I know we're rivals now, but I almost went there. For me it was UNC or Duke. So I love that school. And at the end of the day, the rivalry stuff, that's just fun.

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

Nightclub wars were the worst kind of trouble: back in the day, when rival establishments and their gangs declared war on each other, they would kidnap each other's singers and belly dancers and hold them hostage, shooting them in the kneecaps eventually

It was not Orhan and ?evket locked in deadly combat but my own favorite hero or soccer player versus my brother's.

You want to beat Peter? she asked No, he answered Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win You don't understand he said Yes i do No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter Then what do you want? I want him to love me

If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but sharing of enemies.

What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies. But if I was your enemy with whom would you have shared me? With whom?

What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

For in the Land of the Free, the greatest delight of every man is in getting the better of the other man.

was proud of them because he himself had painted them. The order for the seats amounted to $90,000. Who do you suppose got the order—James Adamson or one of his competitors? From the time of this story until Mr. Eastman's death

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

system. Jobs was furious that Google had decided to compete with Apple in the phone business. "We did not enter the search business," he said. "They

He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company.

Gates soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit à crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : — Il y a une autre façon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox était notre riche voisin à tous les deux, et quand je suis entré chez lui pour lui voler sa télévision, j'ai découvert que tu l'avais déjà emportée !