Quotes About Rivalry

I access our history and get the usual muddle of love and competition that any two sisters share.

The centrality of fidelity shows up indirectly in the tactics employed by women to derogate mating competitors. Saying that a rival cannot stay loyal to one man was judged to be the single most effective derogation tactic for a woman to use in the marriage market. Calling a rival a slut, saying she was loose, or telling others that she slept around were in the top 10 percent of effective derogation tactics.31

For this reason, men and women do not merely enhance their own attractiveness; they also derogate their rivals. While making themselves appear attractive by exhibiting the qualities sought by the other sex, people also denigrate their rivals by making them appear to lack these desired qualities.

Men who were indifferent to the sexual contact that their wives might have with other men ended up raising their rival's children more often than men who didn't tolerate their mates' indiscretions. So modern men have descended not from these indifferent men, but from men who strived, and succeeded more often than not, to maintain exclusive sexual control of their mates.

Since men prize fidelity, women do battle with other women both to display signals of fidelity and to disparage their rivals by impugning their fidelity.

What he's about is destroying a government. Looking like a prime minister in waiting is a second-order consideration.

The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.

So which do you like better,State or Carolina? She was referring to the athletic rivalry between the Triangle area's two largest universities...Definitely State. State all the way.

The situation reflected the perennial problem of interservice rivalry. Each service tended to adopt a self-serving party line and pursue it relentlessly. At budget time each year the Air Force would see endless numbers of Soviet missiles and bombers; the Navy would detect the latest enemy submarines, just off the East coast; and the Army would mechanize a few dozen more Russian divisions.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.

I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

I have seen that Tendulkar was not at all comfortable against Shoaib in Kolkata Test in 1999. It was Shoaib's first tour of India, and he bowled out Sachin without giving him a chance to open his account.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?

It tickles me to beat George Allen.

The most physical, most annoying games I ever played in my life were against my brothers growing up.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

Anytime I get into the ring with Rhea Ripley, I am excited.

It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way.

For whatever reason, I have got a few goals against Arsenal, so I do enjoy playing against them.

When it came to playing Arsenal over the last eight years of my career at United, we always went into games against them feeling like we would win - and we usually did.

I want Sonnen to feel ashamed of how bad he'll be beaten by me.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

Every time you're involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking about the next one.