Quotes About Rivalry

But until you've experienced the incredible mix of emotions that a sibling brings to your life it's really very hard to imagine. The love and the hate, the fun and the fights, the rivalry and the kinship. No one else knows your world like a sibling does. They're there, every crap summer holiday, every day off school, every time your parents argue, every boring Christmas Day, every birthday party, they're there. And they are a part of you.

Helen if you continue to fondle the bastard right in front of me, I'll have to dislocate his other shoulder.

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

I don't like Van Gaal, and I am sure he doesn't like me, either.

Down the years, I have always enjoyed playing Raymond van Barneveld. There is always a frisson of excitement in the air, an edge to the contest that makes the sap rise, but it stops short of pure enmity.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

As a player, I do love playing Edmonton and Vancouver, those guys, with the intensity.

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.

Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.

There is no end to vendetta politics.

Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might've know for a little bit, or they might've opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they'll smile in my face.

Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?' 'Of course not, you fool,' said Jimmy. 'This is politics.

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She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust. But of course it had not been a competition, it had been her own squandering. Her own withdrawal, covert, ineluctable. With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I feel that I have had great matches with Rey Mysterio, AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins.

I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.

People talk about the Kevin Owens/Sami Zayn relationship and how they'll be fighting forever, but in reality, when it comes to me and A.J. Styles, I defy anybody to find two guys who have been battling against each other longer than us.

If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I'll keep it subdued. It's a respect thing. The fans were brilliant towards me; I'll be playing against my friends and I can't forget that.

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.