Top 223 Rivalry Quotes & Sayings

A rivalry is me and James DeGale. That is ingrained in people now.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.

My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.

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

It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

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

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

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

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

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

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

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

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

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

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.

The Midnight Express and the Rock 'n' Roll Express were the greatest tag team rivalry of all time and drew more money than any other tag team rivalry probably in history, and I did manage the WWF champion and WWF Tag Team champion at different points in time but my phone hasn't rung and I haven't lost sleep over it.

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

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

Records don’t mean anything in rivalry games.

Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

You live each rivalry in a different way.

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

I think the Swansea-Cardiff rivalry is good.

I'm all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

It's a showman's sport. I think the rivalry that I have with Usain and myself has turned it into a professional-wrestling feel.

The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona is very big.

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

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

That would be a lot of fun if a Devil-Ranger rivalry was kind of heated up again.

If you're opposites, you complement each other; you aren't jealous. Just annoyance and fighting, as opposed to rivalry.

When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.

I am tired of hearing about Coach Harbaugh; I think he needs to get in check with reality because, at the end of the day, you can't talk smack about a rivalry when you haven't won a rivalry game. You got to win ballgames to be able to talk behind it.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

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

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.

Could rivalry be a productive system?

We had a backyard pool. There was often a bit of fun rivalry between us.

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

The rivalry between Barca and Madrid is very big.

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

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

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

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

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.