Opponent Quotes
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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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A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
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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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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.
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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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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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One should respect a defeated opponent!
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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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Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy.
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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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The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
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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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In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
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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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I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
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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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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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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
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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.
