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Quotes About Rivalry

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
~ John Lewis
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan
Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.
~ Robert Loggia
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
~ Bill Gates
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
~ Henry A. Wallace
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
~ Kurt Russell
Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.
~ Jim Oberweis
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
~ Honore de Balzac
I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.
~ Matt Millen
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
~ Yogi Berra
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
~ Joseph McCabe
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
~ Maria Sharapova
It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
~ Alex Van Halen
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
~ Tom Arnold
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
~ Gore Vidal
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
~ George W. Bush
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.
~ Bertrand Russell
Every soldier is an enemy.
~ Erno Paasilinna
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is a blood sport.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
~ Mao Zedong
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer