Sentence examples for about his rivalry from inspiring English sources

Asked earlier in the week about his rivalry with Woods, McIlroy deflected the question.

In the build-up to this match the Frenchman has spoken to Sky about his rivalry with the United manager.

SOMETHING felt wrong to Magic Johnson when he watched a recent rehearsal of "Magic/Bird," a new Broadway play about his rivalry turned friendship with Larry Bird, the fellow basketball superstar with whom he is indelibly linked.

"I'm just really thankful to be on my way to Beijing instead of being on my couch to watch the Games," said Crocker, who starred in a documentary, "Unfiltered," about his rivalry with Phelps.

Contador's comments came after three weeks of near silence about his rivalry with Armstrong, a tense relationship that Contador played down throughout the race, which ended Sunday in Paris.

The designer Karl Lagerfeld is reportedly unhappy with the biography "The Beautiful Fall," about his rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent: "It's a rubbish book by a mediocrity with the testimonies of a bunch of losers, most often the ones that I fired".

Much has been written, and will be written, elsewhere about the way that Fischer revolutionized modern chess, about his rivalries with Spassky and Karpov, and about his profound psychological problems (paranoid anti-Semitism, for starters).

After his defeat at the awards show, all he can think about is his rivalry with a younger model, Hansel (Mr. Wilson), and his newly flaming desire to return to his roots (leading to a brief stint in the southern New Jersey coal mines).

He worked with the screenwriter Peter Morgan and the director Ron Howard on "Rush," their feature film about his life and rivalry with Hunt, which was released worldwide this autumn.

I've played with some of my best friends in majors and I haven't said a word all day except: 'Here's your card.'" If it was possible to detect a slight agitation in Woods's tone when dealing with questions about his so-called rivalry with Mickelson, it was also fairly easy to guess why he might get slightly annoyed.

"He talked about his friendly brotherly rivalry, with Harry flying Apaches and he's been flying search and rescue," the company's chief executive Damian Camp told reporters.