Positive Rivalry Quotes

If I'm playing for North Carolina, and Eric Montross goes up and dunks one, I might jump up and hug him like I was his girlfriend. It's supposed to be that way, in my opinion. Players should be able to express themselves and grow.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Competition, for me, is healthy.

My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

Competition doesn't have to be conflict.

I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

I have fought my brother some times before. We got hurt sometimes, needed stitches, but it was normal after the fights. We always had a positive rivalry that pushed both of us to our best.

There's always competition in the world, but you don't have to be enemies. You can empower each other.

I think one of the big things with Jonathan and me is that, you know, we love to compete, but it's not a matter of competition to knock each other down. It's a matter of pushing each other to do better. And we've always been like that our whole life.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

I believe in healthy competition not jealousy.

He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.