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...
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
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.
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.
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating 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.
Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for .
When I’m fighting, my rival becomes like a skeleton to me, without any flesh on him.
By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Polly Hall was thirteen but wore enough makeup to rival a 40-year-old whore.
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 don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.
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.
