Rivalry Quotes

• I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

  

  Rory McIlroy
  • Winning
  • Try
  • Rivalry

• In order to have a great rivalry, ... you've got to have two teams that are beating each other, and it's been one-sided. So I don't know. I can't speak for the rivalry part of it, but certainly we haven't been doing our part is the best way of putting it. And I think they're a much improved football team over last year from what I've seen on film. I think they've got a new system there on defense, and they're obviously very, very well-coached, and I have great respect there for Coach Parcells.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Team
  • Respect

• The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Spirit

• Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Suffering

• Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Sister
  • Rooms
  • Planets

• A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Beautiful
  • Tricks
  • Intrigue

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

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Winning
  • Rivalry

• For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Sister
  • Issues
  • Causes

• Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Business
  • Community
  • City

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Rivalry
  • Shampoo

• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Sibling
  • Hostility
  • Horizontal

• In order to have a great rivalry, both teams have to be winning some games. Lately against Dallas, we haven't been able to do that, ... Until we start doing that, it's kind of hard to have a modern-day rivalry.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Game
  • Winning

• The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

  

  William Perry
  • Rights
  • Intense
  • Bragging

• Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Community
  • Basketball
  • Athlete

• Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Animal

• In the beginning, envy is revealed through inappropriate zeal and rivalry, and later by fervour with spite and the blaming of the one who is envied.

  

  Ambrose of Optina
  • Envy
  • Rivalry
  • Blaming

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

  

  David Pleat
  • Football
  • Fierce
  • Rivalry

• Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Senator
  • Rivalry
  • Hatreds

• I don't care what the rivalry is, what the circumstance is, what the standings are, you are not allowed to cross the line in this game and their pitcher crossed it twice. It was pretty clear.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Line
  • Cross
  • Not

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

  

  Edward VII
  • Rivalry
  • Friction

• When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

  

  Carlos Cuaron
  • Solution
  • Script
  • Sibling

• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Perfection
  • Faults
  • Rivalry

• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  

  Ardyth Kennelly
  • Ambitious
  • Righteousness
  • Rivalry

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