Opponents Quotes

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me.

There are many games I love to play. Which one I put on the table depends on the mood and the level of experience of my opponents; I don't have a clear favorite.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

I know who I want to fight, but I don't pick my opponents; I leave it up to my team. They make those kinds of decisions. My job is to fight and win.

The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.

You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there.

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me on the court.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Nobody can count Shane Mosley out. He is a good, good fighter, especially when he fights an aggressive opponent like Manny Pacquiao.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right back after them hard. We are really looking forward to getting after them.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.

Every boxer is tough for me. I don't think any opponent is better than any other. Every opponent is the same for me.

I respect every opponent no matter their record, no matter their title belts. I approach each opponent the same way.