Top 95 Rival Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Rival Quotes from famous people such as Nadia Comaneci, Walt Mossberg, Gabriel Jesus, Joe Lieberman, Djuna Barnes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival O

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you’re balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
Nadia Comaneci
Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else’s operating system and core apps. Awkward.
Walt Mossberg
When I’m not training or playing, I’m watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.
Gabriel Jesus
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
Joe Lieberman
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.
Djuna Barnes
Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as ‘stronger’ on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?
Peter Bergen
Shanghai is a beautiful city, with theatres, shopping malls and restaurants that can rival anything in London.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
In any sport, you need a rival.
Phil Taylor
I think Gilbert Burns is going to become my greatest rival.
Michael Chiesa
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook’s. It just won’t. Not even if you include the ‘users’ who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.
Shawn Amos
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we’ve seen in the solar system.
Alan Stern
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.
Loretta Lynch
I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he’s an amazing human being.
Jon Jones
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
Wayne Kramer
Of course we have respect for the rival.
Casemiro
The calibre of TV’s changing. It’s becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
Emilia Clarke
For me, the best defender I played against was Carles Puyol. He was my teammate, too, but my rival many times. Also, Roberto Ayala, the Argentinian centerback.
David Villa
I was raised in the NBA. I’ve seen some guys stay and I’ve seen a lot go. I’ve watched James Harden be a rival of mine for Sixth Man of the Year to an MVP candidate.
Lou Williams
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
Jeff Lindsay
Jorgensen is tough, but Lin Dan is right up there. He is the best and biggest rival. I really want to catch all his records, but if I want to achieve that, then the most important thing for me is to stay healthy.
Chen Long
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
Joseph McCabe
I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.
Ted Wheeler
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
Fred Wilson
I have too many to count. Put it this way, I rival my wife with the amount of shoes she has in Jordans.
Erik Spoelstra
Atletico is a rival who will never give up.
Ernesto Valverde
For a divided, balkanized America, it might take the looming-up of a rival power, the rise of a dark but all-too-plausible alternative, to remind us of who we are, and what we do not want to be.
Ross Douthat
Rubio and Cruz bring with them only in America personal stories that rival the ‘log cabin’ narratives of presidential candidates the 19th Century. They are Hispanic-American children of immigrants.
Robert C. O’Brien
If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it.
Dorian Yates
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.
Jacob Ruppert
In Germany, we laugh at it. Mourinho just selects a topic to moan about – transfers, team preparation, a rival coach. But Pep Guardiola wants it all to be about the performance of his team. He’s obsessed by possession, like at Bayern Munich, and will not compromise on that at Manchester City.
Lothar Matthaus
A national party cannot win an election riding piggybac

A national party cannot win an election riding piggyback on the rebels of the rival party.
Amit Shah
I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.
Kay Cannon
It’s a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy – they’re not on their full game if they underestimate you.
Joanna Coles
For us, the BSP is like any other rival.
Sushma Swaraj
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
Ron Fournier
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D’Israeli
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don’t.
Jonathan Dimbleby
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn’t feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
Viswanathan Anand
I’ve never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it’s because Chicago doesn’t have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.
Nick Offerman
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
Sextus Propertius
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
Giles Foden
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson
In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
Bhagat Singh
Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.
Sonny Mehta
To get past a rival you have to be smart.
Giorgio Chiellini
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr
Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.
Jon Ossoff
Facebook’s position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we’ve collected, strike a deal with us.
Daniel Lyons
SM:TV’ is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, ‘Live And Kicking,’ it was amazing.
Ant McPartlin
The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America – or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc.
Norman Davies
I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn’t like each other.
John McEnroe
In Brazil, you buy tickets to go to the stadium to watch the carnival, but in Trinidad, you buy a costume and take part. There are very few things that can rival that experience.
Jillionaire
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
George William Russell
I don’t look at it like that’s my rival and I have to beat her. It’s more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that’s what I expect.
Picabo Street
I’m young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.
Victor Ponta
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.
Ron Fournier
The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism’… at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
For 25 years, I was an assistant professor teaching pediatrics, neurology, pathophysiology, and ethics at my alma mater, Eastern Virginia Medical School. It’s been great training for my legislative work – we get in some debates in the classroom that would rival the General Assembly!
Ralph Northam