Quotes About Rivalry

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

I always thought Mario Cipollini was difficult to beat but I think Cipollini would have found it very hard against Cavendish.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.

People always let me know when their team beats the Canucks.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.

I've never started beef with anybody that didn't start with me first.

I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

Football is not a game meant to be played being nice to each other and all that, like 'Kumbaya.'

The GOP, Truman said, was more interested in partisan advantage than in national security.

The cost of partisanship for partisanship's sake—of seeing politics as blood sport, where the kill is the only object of the exercise—was, Livingston said, too high for a free society to pay.

In the 1790s, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Federalists sought not just to win elections but to eliminate their opponents altogether.

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

Wolves and people were not natural enemies. The humans' relationship with other animals established their rivalry with wolves.

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

How Peter, enraged at the loss of such large territories, and consequently of so much revenue, thundered against Martin

delinease en un papel, Y aparecen en la figura de esta página. Le dije que, aunque en Europa los sabios tenían la costumbre de robarse los inventos unos a otros, y de este modo lograban cuando menos la ventaja de que se discutiese cuál era el verdadero autor, tomaría yo tales precauciones, que él solo disfrutase el honor íntegro, sin que viniera a mermárselo ningún rival.

Right now he's desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and Dre and everybody else. He'll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the 'I'm a mad gangsta' hardcore route, and ain't nobody gonna believe him."--On his feud with bubblegum rapper Ja Rule.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Envy Is Behind Flattery.

Our rival interrogation team is the Pubyok, named after the "floating wall" defenders that saved Pyongyang from invaders in 1136. There are only a dozen or so left, old men with silver crewcuts who walk in a row like a wall and truly believe they can float, stealthy as ghosts, from one citizen to the next, interrogating them as the wind interrogates the leaves.