Opponent Quotes
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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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The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
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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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You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
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If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.
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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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We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
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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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Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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One should respect a defeated opponent!
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
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Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy.
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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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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the 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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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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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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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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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.
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Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
