Rivalry Quotes · Page 4

Sibling rivalry is fascinating, petty things will create a gap but realistic problems will create a bridge.

— Michael Sotelo

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

— Anthony Zinni

“You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.”

— Dianna Hardy

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

— Honore de Balzac

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

— Hideo Kojima

As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.

— JaVale McGee

There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.

— James Anderson

every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future…

— Linda Sunshine

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves…

— John Dryden

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I'm looking forward to playing against Sidney Crosby as much as I am looking forward to playing against all of the other…

— Alexander Ovechkin

The 'Team Up North' is something that we talk about every single day. And the best way to respect a rivalry is…

— Ryan Day

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a…

— Henri Nouwen

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to…

— Honore de Balzac

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions…

— John F. Kennedy

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about…

— Ronda Rousey

I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about…

— Bill Hicks

Football is definitely present in the tennis world. Given the mix of nationalities that exists in the changing rooms, there's inevitably a…

— Gael Monfils

Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart…

— Peter Thiel

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will…

— Gaston Bachelard

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension…

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

I actually do not really like rivalry, but this world full of it.

— Reny

There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.

— Jemele Hill

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

— Carson Palmer

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

— Graeme Souness

Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

— Rob Corddry

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

— Elbert Hubbard

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

— John George Nicolay

In every city where there are two teams, the rivalry is very intense. Rome, Milan, everywhere - it's very strong.

— Roberto Mancini

It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.

— Mike Tice

“It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.”

— Sun Tzu

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

— Soundarya

I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

— Andy Roddick

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

— Carrie Fisher

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

— Thomas B. Macaulay