Opponent Quotes
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
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Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy.
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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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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.
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Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
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If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.
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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 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.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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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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A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
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In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
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The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
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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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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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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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I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
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Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
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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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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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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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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.
