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Quotes About Rivalry

There is a different sort of edge when you come up against England. Even when it's a friendly game you still get that fear in you that if you get beat it won't be good but if you win it will be the best thing going.
~ Robert Snodgrass
I don't like friendly matches.
~ Marco van Basten
It's always great to compete against the 76ers and to have friends and family watch.
~ Frank Vogel
But amongst the drivers I don't have friends at all. They are not my friends. It would never work to have a friendship, so I don't make any effort to make friends.
~ Kevin Magnussen
Sergio and I have played a lot of golf together since we were 14 years old. We have a great friendship and a good rivalry.
~ Justin Rose
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
~ Alvin Dark
When actors are vying for the same kinds of roles, there's bound to be a little rivalry. Deep friendships cannot be forged when you are competing with each other.
~ Juhi Chawla
You see more friendships in the league. It's not like in the '80s when you had enemies, or you couldn't stand this guy, and there were fights all the time.
~ Paul Pierce
My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.
~ John Stockton
Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
~ Ford Madox Ford
But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.
~ Ford Madox Ford
I'm stronger than you are, Redd.
~ Frank Beddor
who hate the Harkonnens so much they'll burn a chair in which a Harkonnen has sat, salt the ground over which a Harkonnen has walked.
~ Frank Herbert
I want you to remember, Clark. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember, my hand, at your throat, I want you to remember, the one man who beat you.
~ Frank Miller
Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other's sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.
~ Franklin Foer
Arkan had threatened to shoot a rival striker's kneecap if he scored against Obilic.
~ Franklin Foer
There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.
~ Deontay Wilder
Apart from me, Tyson Fury, and Deontay Wilder, you can't sell out Wembley.
~ Dillian Whyte
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.
~ Martina Navratilova
As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'
~ Cheech Marin
Camaraderie builds. We travelled together to Rome, Paris, Wimbledon, the U.S., lots of places. In a way, I miss it right now. My opponents were also my best friends.
~ Rod Laver
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
~ Valentino Rossi
It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
~ David Merrick