Quotes About Competition

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

In politics, your opponent can be far more important than your vision.

You have to get one above your opponent; being on the front foot allows you to do that. It allows you to dominate them.

It's not being disrespectful, but the less you know an opponent, the more work you have to do.

I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He's very strong. He's a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it's really hard to stop him.

You are there to score goals, and doing so shows respect for your opponent, it demonstrates that you are taking him seriously.

You have to respect the opponent as much as possible.

Man, I never got to fight a ranked opponent at 155, and that wasn't because I wasn't winning.

I have learnt as an entrepreneur that the formidable opponent you can have is someone who has nothing to lose.

I played against Ashley Cole all the time in training. For me, he is the best left-back in the world. He was the hardest opponent and I had him every day in training.

I help receivers on my team every now and then, but I'm slow to do even that because they could end up my opponent the following year.

Back in my days, my favorite opponent was Diego Maradona.

You build up the opponent, and you lose confidence.

In a tiebreaker, you generally have a lot of adrenaline running through. It's all about just holding your serve, trying to hold two serves at a time, trying to stay ahead in the tiebreaker, constantly put pressure on my opponent.

I am fully prepared to fight with any opponent in my category from any team.

Where the opponent is in the rankings means nothing.

You've got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

There are so many X-factors going on in the ring. You have to protect your opponent. You have to be conscious of what your opponent is going through and make sure they're safe.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

Honestly, I've not looked too deeply into my opponent, he's just another fighter. From my side, I've just got to win and win in style.

I just want to be as good as I can be with any opponent I have and hear everyone say 'that was her best match ever.'

We can't focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.

Look, most players can't stand to be outplayed by an opponent's bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn't bother me that much.