Opponents Quotes

(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs.

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other.

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.

The endorsement was a really gracious statement. I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator [Ted] Cruz. We have fought the battle and he was a tough and brilliant opponent.

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.

The difficult opponent is the best.

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

Energy is connected to physical fitness. One of the reasons I stayed at the top so long is that I was tremendously fit. At 36, I was fitter than most opponents ten years younger.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

Christine O'Donnell released a commercial in which she says, 'I'm not a witch.' That's pretty good, though not as effective as her opponent's slogan, 'I'm not Christine O'Donnell.'

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.