Quotes About Rivalry

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

I respect everybody who goes to Kentucky. You know that once you sign with Kentucky, the same thing with Duke. You know each and every night it's going to be a team's Super Bowl. You're going to get their best.

I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or '61. I just regret we didn't get the chance to prove it.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

the Empire was naturally attracted towards the foes of its chief Indian foe, the Congress

Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss.

Haven´t you heard of the duel going on ever since 1801? - The Duel

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

Even when he cheated he couldn't win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too.

When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Juvencio Nava, tuvo que matar por eso; por ser el dueño de la Puerta de Piedra y que, siendo también su compadre, le negó el pasto para sus animales. Primero se aguantó por puro compromiso.

It's England against Scotland, Claymore, except the battles will take place in the bedchamber. My purse is on you.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Most of the outcry is about money. It is this that wearies the courts, pits father against son, brews poisons, and gives swords to the legions and to cut-throats alike. . . . Because of it, nights resound with the quarrels of husbands and wives, crowds swarm to the tribunals of the magistrates, kings rage and plunder and overthrow states that have been built by the long labor of centuries, in order that they may search for gold and silver in the very ashes of cities.

It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.

As a result he hated Gabriel, in the way a second son hates an elder

It was at this moment, chided by his old and present rival, that Shade decided it was time to revert to the shitkicker verities. Brazen dash, rough talk, and an ounce or two of mean were clearly required.

There's only two teams in Manchester. City and City reserves!" How right he was!

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.