Lauren Kate Quotes

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.

Once you own a team for as many years as I have, and you root for that team for that period of time, you've got rooting for the Blazers in your blood, and the Sonics are one of our arch-competitors.

The Boston Red Sox, they love to compete.

There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.

It feels awesome to outrun anybody, but to outrun your older brother always feels good.

It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother. That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to, though.

George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.

I don't like disrespecting other teams.

They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.

As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.

I love playing there... I like Atletico.

Every time Spain play England at any level, it is difficult.

My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.

When it's a clash between two big teams, you know your players will concentrate.

Everybody loves playing against the best teams.

People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.

I am fully prepared to fight with any opponent in my category from any team.

The 'Team Up North' is something that we talk about every single day. And the best way to respect a rivalry is to work it every day. And we do.

The derby is always the most important match of the year and it's always nice to score goals against the leaders and the best teams.

I'm going to Arsenal to play.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.