Quotes About Rivalry

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

thereby forfeiting the juicy solo in Peter and the Wolf (the duck's theme) to the demonstrably inferior Evelyn Oh, whose rendition of it did, appropriately enough, sound like a quacking fucking duck, as did everything that came out of Evelyn Oh's quacking fucking Oh-boe.

Obviously, it is good to have competitiveness in the team and that urge to want to beat the driver next to you, but at the same time, I think we are gonna respect each other.

Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

It was once remarked of a well-known Oxford scholar that, while he had no enemies, he was hated by all his friends. Something of the same kind would express the feelings towards the FBI of its fellow U.S. agencies.

You killed my pappy, said the youth, and my pappy's pappy. And his pappy's pappy. And my brothers Jethro, Hank, Hoss, Red, Peregrine, Marsh, Junior, Dizzy, Luke, Peregrine, George and all the others. I'm callin' you out, lawman.

The Other should be a glorious, not a pitiful Other, an object of admiration not of commiseration, the object of a challenge, not that interactive, democratic Other which is not even really your equal. The Other exists more intensely in the dual relation, in rivalry and challenge, than in interaction, conviviality and cosy multiculturalism.

One of the two adversaries is a rug salesman, the other an arms salesman: they have neither the same logic nor the same strategy, even though they are both crooks. There is not enough communication between them to enable them to make war upon each other.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.

I definitely have my dad's competitive streak in me.

I have a competitive streak.

People talk about gangs as if they're something new. But it really isn't that way. The Democratic Party is a gang. The Republican Party is a gang. They're just not in the streets anymore.

When I say we're on different side of the streets, it's true. Me and Terence Crawford are on different side of the streets.

I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.

I've had many strike partners over the years and usually their aim is to outscore you - and take great pleasure in doing so.