Quotes About Rivalry

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

My kids are four years apart. They're constantly fighting, hitting each other, grabbing the toy away from the other.

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.

This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

Hasn't it always been like this?' asked Charlotte. 'Haven't they always been games that empires play with one another?' 'Maybe,' answered Lord Ingram. 'But it can take a queen-and-country sort like me a while to work that out.

Already there was a contest, always kept under the surface, between the father and son. It concerned ways of doing things, decisions to be made. As yet, the son always surrendered. It is like that in a family, little isolated groups formed within the larger group, jealousies, concealed hatreds, silent battles secretly going on…

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

Clubs know they cannot operate without opponents, and so unlike in most businesses, the collapse of a rival is not cause for celebration.

Stalin impressed Trotsky, whose description reveals why he lost their struggle for power. 'Stalin was very valuable behind the scenes,' he wrote. 'He did have the knack of convincing the average run

Forget not about an existing incurable enemy.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

You can't love your team without hating another team.

Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

I think we have gotten through those brain dead moments on both our parts. Now we just love to race one another hard and clean.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. We resented each other. She envied me my beauty, my dress. I envied the little fool her privilege of being always near to you.

HATE LUISA FERRARI.

I guess we will," I said, wondering how it had gotten to this: my cousin and me, fighting over who was the more powerful witch. I mean, talk about stupid. I

Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen.