Quotes About Opponent

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

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

ANTAGONIST, n. The miserable scoundrel who won't let us.

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

By 1948, "to err is Truman" became a popular expression, and a Newsweek poll of fifty political pundits found that every one of them predicted his defeat. His 1948 Republican opponent was the popular Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who had been the party's nominee against Roosevelt four years before.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

Rudolf was well-nigh convinced that the man had been on his track: he would make certainty surer. The bold game was always his choice and his delight; this trait he shared with Rupert of Hentzau, and hence arose, I think, the strange secret inclination he had for his unscrupulous opponent.

You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured...courage, determination...that count.

Charles le Mesurier was quite a formidable opponent and he wouldn't have hesitated to bring the full force of the law against us if we'd crossed the line.

You think a war between equals is won by the bravest or the most righteous? The side that outthinks its opponent and fights the hardest? Bullshit! The side that wins is the side that screws up the least.

There are various psychological advantages you can take into boxing match. One is getting your opponent to fight with emotion and anger because he hates you.

Tecia is a tough opponent, both standing and on the ground, and has evolved a lot. She hits hard and can take a punch.

It's very difficult to land a punch against Mayweather. But when I land a punch I'm going to hit him and not let him go. I will go after him.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.

I am going to have to search for Whitaker. I intend to throw punches at him from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.

You can see that mistakes in the Bundesliga are punished harshly and that we can have problems against every opponent if we don't play at the limit - even if it is the bottom of the table.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

At the end of the day it's still football. It's nothing to over-process: You're going against another player who puts their pants and shoes on the way you do, and that's something I realized.