Rivals Quotations | Page 2

We feel like we can play with anyone. We understand that UVC is the top dog in our league and we would love another shot at them. They are our rivals but they are also our friends. We support them and they support us.

Today's stage was probably less difficult than that of yesterday. We let a breakaway go and the team has worked very well, and with a lot of discipline behind. No day is easy, but today our rivals probably paid a bit for the beating that they gave to themselves yesterday, because at this point of the race, it is difficult to recover a bit more. These two stages were the major obstacles that we still had, although there are still two more stages left, plus the time trial. Roberto continues to look very good to me, and he comes to the chrono with an advantage that will allow him to do it with more tranquility.

East and Highland have been great rivals for years and years; it's always a great game.

(Baseball) obviously set up the schedule this year so that divisional rivals would play each other late in the season, ... which is phenomenal for the fans. But when you have to face the East, it's tough.

Each match was tough. That's what happens when you have two rivals go at it. Most of these kids know each other, live in the same neighborhoods, so it adds to things.

ESPN called it hideous. I asked Coach Mears for his permission and he gave me his blessing. I plan on wearing it for the Kentucky and Vanderbilt games because they were Tennessee's two biggest rivals when he was there.

The win streak has been great. We have improved our doubles play and it has definitely brought a lot of confidence to the team. We beat a couple of big rivals during this win streak, rivals that we play every year. Our program is doing well and we are headed in the right direction.

North Side's a lot better than last year, ... I wouldn't say we were surprised that the game was close. That's what happens when rivals play.

Defensively we're going to have a lot of size. It should be interesting to see - I think it's going to be a learning process - learn to play with each other, learn to play with the new rules, learn to play against other teams. There's all new teams everywhere, they haven't been passive and have been changing players left and right. For the first week it be interesting to see how we play against our traditional rivals because we're going to be playing them a lot.

Dean Smith said of all the great wins he ever had, the greatest wins were the wins at Duke. Coach K said the greatest wins he ever had were the wins at Carolina. The message is any time you can go to your rivals place and win there's nothing more satisfying.

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

You really couldn't draw it up better than this -- the No. 3 in the country, rivals and not to mention the playoff implications for the last home game, this is the perfect game. If we win it would be a very memorable night.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

They need to get over these hurdles with NTP to compete in the marketplace. RIM is now dealing with these legal issues instead of focusing their own resources to compete against rivals like Microsoft.

You don't want your biggest rivals to qualify for the World Cup in your backyard.

There's definitely some bad blood between the two teams, and that's why you're seeing a lot of penalties and stuff like that. Obviously there's major intensity with the top two teams in the league and division rivals going at it.

As usual, Tufts and Trinity will be tough and Bates and Colby are our rivals which makes them always tough to play against. However, I feel our goals are realistic if we do the little things like play good defense and get quality pitching.

All our rivals in total have fewer clients than 10 percent of that 17 million.

It's a competitive league, and that's good because the kids know who their rivals are.

It is true that we play in Europe every now and again and that we have to face matches in the league in between these legs but we are at home and we have to go out and get three points in spite of the fact the rivals are tough and are having a good season.

It's rivals like the U.S. and Canada for sure. It's pretty much the same. It's going to be good.

It's nice to play our rivals to the north. Jane Shields is a good coach and her teams always come out and play hard.

They are our biggest rivals ... there's no question about it. A lot of people in both countries will be focusing on that.

They are one of our main rivals and we wanted to beat them because we had previously lost to Hesperia (Christian). We played well for three-quarters of the games and then would lose it at the end.

These two have proved how quick Renault is. The pace of the Renaults is very good. At the moment, it looks as though we are their closest rivals but we are not on their pace. Hopefully, we will not let them get away.

I'm disappointed because at a major meet you want your biggest rivals there to help make sure you put in your very best performance,

I had told him before, if this doesn't work out as a head coaching job, plan on me coming to help him. I guess we're rivals now.

In some respects what we're seeing in 2006 is companies are becoming more optimistic. They're looking at their rivals to see who's going to start upping investment levels first.

I really anticipate it being a defensive struggle. That's why I enjoy it. It's Virginia Tech-Miami. We're former Big East rivals and now ACC rivals. It doesn't get any better than that.

He's a player who eliminates his rivals ... leaving them without any hope of recovery.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

I don't think there's a market in the world today for us that rivals the growth and development opportunity, and the early acceptance that we're enjoying throughout the country, that China has,

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

He can have few rivals in the courage and integrity and complete self-abnegation with which he has given up his own career (in which, however, he still remains eminent) to devote himself to combating the nuclear peril as well as other, allied evils.

Hearts are top of the league at the moment and are a really good team, but I think Rangers are the main rivals to Celtic.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.

These girls are rivals and you can see how excited (the Knights) are. They have really gotten better since last time we played them when it got rained out.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

The events of (Monday) and (Tuesday) have made it clear that this is not the time to play a football game. This is a dire situation that rivals any in the history of our state, and our priorities are on participating in recovery efforts.

The events of yesterday and this morning have made it clear that this is not the time to play a football game. This is a dire situation that rivals any in the history of our state, and our priorities are on participating in recovery efforts.

The figures were a positive surprise. One should not forget, however, that Mercedes Car Group has suffered a sharp decline in European new car registrations (in January) in comparison to its main rivals BMW and Audi.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

The level of competition coming to the inaugural Tour is unprecedented in the United State and rivals any race that was held worldwide last year.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

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.

Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...

The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.