#Rivalry Quotes

“There is none but heWhose being I do fear; and under himMy genius is rebuked, as it is saidMark Antony's was by Caesar.”

“An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.”

“I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”

“I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.”

“While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other”

“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.”

“He's too ugly to be the champ!”

“The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.”

“Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.”

“I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.”

“Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town”

“We are stone enemies when the bell rings”

“Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.”

“I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.”

“Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.”

“Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.”

“I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.”

“I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.”

“Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.”

“I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.”

“Just got one more than Shaq. You can take that to the bank.”

“Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.”

“Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.”

“She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.”

“Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.”

“To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.”

“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”