Quotes About Rivalry

I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like that in my family. In some ways, I'm envious, because they have someone that's so completely in their corner. And at the same time, I imagine it may at times feel like it's stunting.

I write about messy relationships - between friends, rivals, married couples, siblings. I'm not really interested in boy/girl romances.

You don't have a real rivalry unless both sides are great teams.

I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

The simplest thing is - Dillian Whyte can't hurt me.

It's as if the Sox have walked through the Stadium driving stakes through every single ghost's, vampire's and Yankee fan's rotten, cobwebby heart.

I've spent decades waking up every morning eager to fight Democrats, trying to gain every bit of advantage for every battle. God knows we made mistakes and played too often on the dark side. But I never woke up knowing that somewhere out there a Russian agent was waking up with the same job I had.

All Republicans want to do is beat the team playing the Giants. They aren't voters using active intelligence or participants in a civil democracy; they are fans. Their role is to cheer and fund their team and trash-talk whatever team is on the other side.

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Girls are complicated. They rarely love each other without also hating each other.

I admire Trotsky, but for propaganda purposes, we must have someone to hate. Since 1937, we have had no one.

Were all gentlemen so competitive that they wanted to win, regardless of the prize?

Neden bir arada oynayam?yorlard? sanki? Bunun için de ayn? partiyi mi tutmak gerekiyordu.

Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies? -I See You Everywhere

When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.

This culture of pressure and rivalry tended to produce two, highly contrasted species of official: the creatively corrupt libertine, and the puritan. And it was the tension between the two that helped produce the Opium War, with all its unfortunate consequences.

Was it possible that Octavia had misjudged her? What was he thinking? Of course, it was possible. Octavia was a dear, but she was nineteen years old and thinking of Octavia. The last thing she wanted in her life was a staggeringly beautiful rival who was not conveniently evil.

Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.

I guess my Indy friends don't always love to hear this, but yeah I root for the Pats.

I know what it's like to be excited for a big game. I know what it's like to be heartbroken after losing to a rival. I know what it's like to lose a key player to injury.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.