Rivals Quotes

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

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.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.