Quotes About Rivalry

There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

is just that I am not so sure — as a writer — how I feel about him using poets and historians of their caliber to push —" "Lies?" I asked. Hadn't Octavianus used a masterful campaign of besmirching my mother to turn all of Rome against my father? "Public policy," he said flatly.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."

Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise, especially after others were chosen; he was a prig and a meddler; an unscrupulous ideologue and a windy orator; a scribbler who praised simplicity in flowery circumlocutions, so anxious to see his production in print that it might be said of him, with little fear of exaggeration, that he would rather lose his soul than misplace a manuscript.

And since perfected souls will be incapable of envy, all will rejoice in their lesser level of brightness, because it will be exactly what God wills for the common good; and all will identify with that common good as the fulfillment of their individual good, rather than a rival to it, as we fools do now.

The Celtics were so dominant in the 1960s that Jerry West stopped wearing anything green because it reminded him of the frustration the Lakers had endured during that decade.

Rivalry," General Tedeki said. "One group played against another. By the Leader. So he is never challenged.

This rivalry was hundreds of years old, and very deep and satisfying.

But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.