Rivalry Quotes

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

— Edward VII

“When two persons are too close, they fall apart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think the Swansea-Cardiff rivalry is good.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

— Martin Milner

“Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.”

— Baltasar Gracián

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

— Josh Billings

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

— Carl Yastrzemski

Could rivalry be a productive system?

— Sara Genn

Italy is one of the great footballing nations, with whom we have a great sporting rivalry.

— Joachim Low

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

— John McDonnell

There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.

— Jordan Burroughs

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

— Michelle Wie

“Calm down Weston. It was just a window. I wasn’t aiming for your head.” - Samuel”

— Angela Richardson

Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires.

— Tite

I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.

— Chester Crocker

Jill : What causes sibling rivalry? Tim : Having more than one kid!

— Tim Allen

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

— James Mark Baldwin

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his…

— William James

As someone who experienced Celtic versus Rangers in Glasgow, I know a fierce rivalry when I see one and there is a…

— Chris Sutton

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole…

— Joseph Addison

Between the '80s with The Midnight Express and the '90s with The Heavenly Bodies, and then in the 2000s on the reunions…

— Jim Cornette

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements…

— Khalil Gibran

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own…

— George Eliot

You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that…

— Catherine Hardwicke

When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling…

— Shaquille O'Neal

There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they…

— Nick Denton

Competition, it means different things to different people. But whether its a friendly rivalry or a fight to the death, the end…

— Ash Sweeney

The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share.…

— Jennifer Rhines

I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with…

— James Nesbitt

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the…

— Adele Faber

When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking…

— John Cassian

Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,…

— Murray Bookchin

There was a time, with the Berlin Wall down, that [it looked as if] the UN finally could do what it was…

— Kofi Annan

“Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social…

— Marian Deegan

“Every time we cheer the downfall of a powerful woman, we're giving ourselves the message that power is bad and we shouldn't…

— Susan Shapiro Barash

I want to say that Russia is developing along a democratic path, this is without question so. No one should have any…

— Vladimir Putin

It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism.…

— Malidoma Patrice Some