Quotes About Rivalry

People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.

My relatives have always taken their baseball seriously, and proudly rooted for the Yankees when they beat the boys from Brooklyn in six remarkable World Series matchups in the 1940s and the 1950s.

The Court Yard Hounds aren't a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It's going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

If we have somebody who may be ranked a little higher than another person, if one of them wants to be a Buckeye, wants to play in that rivalry game, play in the Horseshoe, that matters to us. We take all those things into consideration and we try to be as aggressive as we can on the recruiting trail.

I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!

We kind of understand at this level of the game when you work your way up to the top there's a possibility you may be facing somebody you've trained with before.

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train together every day, and we can push each other on. That's something many of our rivals don't have when training day in day out.

When crooked men feel threatened, and have no chance of competing with or matching the intelligence and maneuvers of a man who they see as their rival, they begin to use their insecurity to set that man up and bear false witness against him. They don't stop until they bring him down, drive him out, and eliminate him from holding on to something they could never have achieved fair and square.

When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.

For not even lions or dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one another.

She's mine." "Fuck that." Ryland strode across the earth right toward Kane, ignoring Kane's growl of warning. "How in hell's name did a bastard like you find an angel?

The gaslighting parent usually has a "golden child" and a "scapegoat child." The former can do no wrong, whereas the latter can do no right. This pits siblings against each other, and these feelings of competition commonly extend into adulthood.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in New York City. If I were you I'd make an appointment for that face as soon as you get there, he quipped. Sabrina scowled and shook a fist at him. Keep it up, stinkpot, and you're going to need a plastic surgeon yourself. Puck winked. No need to get all mushy on me, Grimm.

What about your play, Terry? Pushing past the little brother into the office. Like you didn't think that would start some shit. You pushed the action with that little move and you know it.