Opponent Quotes
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I guess there hasn't been a tough enough opponent for me to fight. But fighting a southpaw is OK. It's something different and maybe I need something different. I look at a right-handed fighter then I look at a left-handed fighter, and it's even better.
Brandon Rios -
Play against the Game, not your opponent.
Bud Wilkinson
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Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.
Demian Maia -
Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.
Josh McDaniels -
One should respect a defeated opponent!
Alexander Khalifman -
... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.
Neil McDonald -
I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.
Daniel Negreanu -
If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.
Hasan Minhaj
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
John Locke Nazareth -
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Harsha Bhogle -
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Sidney Hook -
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
Wayne Gerard Trotman -
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Nigel Short -
The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
Bret Hart
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
Nicola Adams -
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
Haruki Murakami -
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
Anthony Trollope -
I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.
Reid Ribble -
Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
Brandon Todd -
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
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In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
Harry S Truman -
I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
Emanuel Lasker -
My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.
Joseph M. Kyrillos -
There was something so cool about being able to carry this film Into the Forest together with Ellen Page and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
Evan Rachel Wood