Quotes About Challenge

I love the competition, going out there for 90 minutes, fighting your opponent. If you take this competition away from me, I am not happy.

The only opponent who has been able to keep up with me was Roberto Carlos.

Any opponent can make life tough for you.

It would be nice to crack America, but I need the opponent to do that. If Eddie Chambers is the best American heavyweight they can dig up, it's a very sad state of affairs.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

As a player, I loved being tackled, whether it was in training or in a game. I took a full-blooded challenge as an invitation to do exactly the same thing to an opponent. I would wait for my opportunity and nine times out of 10, I would get him back.

Whatever UFC wants to do or any opponent they want to give me, I'll be ready for that.

I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case.

Liverpool are a very powerful opponent.

A ContraPoints video is never going to be framed as 'I'm so offended by this idea.' It's not, 'I'm so intimidated by my opponent's big, masculine brain.' It's more, 'I'm bored of you, and also, you're a dum-dum.'

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

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.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

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

I've often said it's not just the level of your opponent: it's can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?

You build up the opponent, and you lose confidence.

We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.

David Haye was the perfect opponent for me because he was a small heavyweight with a big name and we were about the same size.

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

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.'

In boxing, some fighters let the occasion get to them and they let their opponent get to them. With me, it's just another day at the office.