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Quotes About Rivalry

It's fun playing against world-class players. It makes you compete harder.
~ Joe Thornton
I've seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they're missing out.
~ Andrew Flintoff
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
~ Adam Grant
It wasn't my intention to get under Canelo's skin at the first press conference. I think the media makes more of it than we do. We've both been in worse scuffles than that.
~ Caleb Plant
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
~ Adrian Lewis
I can remember crying in the Kippax at Maine Road when City were relegated to the old First Division in 1996. Dropping out of the Premier League seemed like the worst thing imaginable - and what didn't help was the fact United were winning just about everything going at the same time.
~ Ricky Hatton
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
~ David Hyde Pierce
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
~ Jack Nicklaus
No, I don't want to play with Tom Brady. I want to beat Tom Brady. I want to play with Dak Prescott.
~ Amari Cooper
Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.
~ Tony Bellew
The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.
~ Marvin Hagler
These guys talk when I'm injured, but when I'm healthy, where are these guys? Tony or Conor, it doesn't matter. Or maybe they're going to fight it each other? It doesn't matter.
~ Khabib Nurmagomedov
They always compare my 'Crazy Story' to Meek's 'Tony Story.'
~ King Von
Maybe Tony Bellew is my Benn-Eubank.
~ David Haye
Tony Harrison is not on my level.
~ Jermell Charlo
My plan is to show everyone that Tony Harrison is not on my level.
~ Jermell Charlo
But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
~ Damon Wayans
The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.
~ Jason Kidd
I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.
~ James Nesbitt
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
~ Peter Mandelson
Mit der Not ist es wie mit dem Erfolg. Beides verschafft dir falsche Freunde und echte Feinde,
~ Sebastian Fitzek
PM says they want to win the elections for the municipalities of Diyarbakir, Van and Sirnak. In case, we (BDP) want New York, Paris and Rome but you can't have them all. (On the quote from PM Tayyip Erdogan for the ruling party AKP wanting to win the local elections for 3 cities which the BDP won with 60% average on last elections)
~ Selahattin Demirtas