Opponents Quotes
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When I started, I just put my nose to the grindstone, had great trainers and opponents like Fit Finlay, Arn Anderson, Booker T, Umaga and Bob Holly, and good things started to happen.
Bobby Lashley
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I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!
Valentino Rossi
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I like the six wins, and I don't like the six losses. The good news is, we didn't really stub our toe against the teams we should beat, but the bad news is that we didn't knock off any of the quality opponents.
Brad Soderberg
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When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.
Wanderlei Silva
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It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.
Conan O'Brien
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When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
Adolf Hitler
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Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.
Miyamoto Musashi
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Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
Edmar Mednis
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Tacitus
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I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.
Bent Larsen
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A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.
Brad Alan Lewis
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It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.
Amarillo Slim
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The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.
Sigmund Freud
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.
Aristotle
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If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
Mark Russell
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You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.
Bill Clinton
