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Quotes About Rivalry

Nor did Baggio endear himself to the Juventus faithful by his loyalty to Fiorentina. In the Fiorentina-Juve match in April 1991, Juve won a penalty. Baggio refused to take it, and it was missed. He was then substituted, and on his way to the bench picked up and put on a Fiorentina scarf. Weeks of argument followed.
~ John Foot
Milan-Roma games were especially tense. Roma fans loved to sing, to the tune of Il sole mio – 'I have only one dream/Milan in flames'. Milan's fans replied with irony: 'Milan in flames? And where will you work?
~ John Foot
In every age and clime we seeTwo of a trade can never agree.
~ John Gay
For the next ten days, Hillary would come at Obama, guns blazing, armed with a line that, in the context of her new persona, was so well pitched and perfectly modulated that it almost sounded like poetry.
~ John Heilemann
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
~ John Jay Chapman
The rush is there and my body tingles. Sounds funny but it's true. It's better than shafting a bird. Better than speeding. Mark's head is a mess but the bleeding has stopped. My knuckles are bruised and Rod's eyes have gone a bit mental looking. We join the crush trying to get into the ground and we can hear the constant chant of CHELSEA. This is what life's all about. Tottenham away. Love it.
~ John King
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
~ John Leonard
Think nothing of it," I said. "We've all wanted to kill Clodius from time to time.
~ John Maddox Roberts
Cash loves his brother, in theory. In practice, he can't stand the guy.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.
~ Elisa Albert
You know — or perhaps you do not know — that there are two women whom I have hated all my life long — Lady Byron and Marie Louise.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love and think of you always. Fancy Flush being taken in the light of a rival by baby! Oh, baby was quite jealous the other day, and strugggled and kicked to get to me because he saw Flush leaning his pretty head on my lap. There's a great strife for privileges between those two.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Two can play at Salisbury's game.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My rival," he whispered, his lips moving against Cathoair's own as Cathoair tried not to understand. "My sister has excellent taste. What a fragile, beautiful boy thou art.
~ Elizabeth Bear
By rounding on Kornilov, Russia's prime minister made an enemy of the one man who could have helped him prevent what was coming.
~ Arthur Herman
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.
~ B.F. Skinner
Laramie had smiled at Dana. "You just can't stand one of your cousins making a clean getaway.
~ B.J. Daniels
Learn from the cock the following four things: getting up at the right time, fighting bitterly, making your brothers flee and usurping their share also!
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
I have always admired the games between Celtic and Rangers. That's one of the games that you always watch when it's happening.
~ Gianfranco Zola
I come from Glasgow and being from Glasgow everyone knows about Celtic and Rangers. It is a big part of most people's lives.
~ Amy Macdonald
Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we've rattled some cages and that's been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.
~ Steve Clarke
I support Rangers and every time an Old Firm match comes up people will talk about it and look forward to it.
~ Amy Macdonald
There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.
~ Martin Brodeur