Rivals But Friends Quotes & Sayings

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival — Anson Dorrance

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account. — Jennifer Weiner

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. — Douglas Alexander

Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ... — Wallace Stevens

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me. — Jackson Browne

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer. — Nelson Mandela

It's an economy based on the tooth fairy. — Greg Gutfeld

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. — John Wesley Powell

The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified. — Sigmund Freud

Strength means ... acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart. — Brenda Shaughnessy

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it. — Paul Gallico

We are only human when we are part of a community ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives. — Orson Scott Card

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story. — Utkarsh Ambudkar

Ree flinched as a dozen heads turned her way. She could see how they expected this to go. Either she and the other girl would become great friends and form their own exclusive little circle separate from the rest, or they'd be bitter rivals who constantly vied to beat each other in training. Those were the only two narratives open to her. That was what happened when you were part of a minority: to everyone else, your identity was intimately bound up with the group you belonged to — A.F.E. Smith

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends. — Paulo Coelho

This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it! — Peter Kauzer

We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends. — Ben Tolosa

We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels? — Philippa Gregory

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. — Charles Stanley

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement. — Wilhelm Reich

Though in fairness, before tonight she wouldn't have known exactly how to classify them. Sorta childhood friends through her brother, turned business rivals who had absolutely incendiary chemistry when they let it loose, which was almost never. Yeah, that wasn't unclear at all ... Sarcasm. Kady's second-favorite - asm. — Laura Kaye