Intense Rivalry Quotes

In our league, it comes right down to the end.

Politics is a blood sport.

No player in NBA history has driven me crazier, night after night after NIGHT, than the Thunder storm that can be Russell Westbrook, No. 0.

I wanted to beat Peyton Manning as bad as I've ever wanted anything in my life.

The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

When it comes to Brazil there are no friendlies.

It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

You turn up to an Ashes series and put everything you can into it.

The war of the giants is over. The quarrels of the pygmies have begun.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

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

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

When you play against Athletic, you know there is no easy ball.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.