Opponent Quotes
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.
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You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.
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If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.
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I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
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I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
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You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.
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Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
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When your team is on a losing streak, you schedule a game with a cream-puff opponent. Then you go with the hot hand.
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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
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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.
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Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy.
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My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
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I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
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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.
