Quotes About Opponent

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Not a lot of people want to step up and fight me, so thanks to Fox for that. I appreciate that. He's going to help make me a superstar, so thank you, Alantez Fox.

The first thing I do when I book a fight is I go to the Internet and I print out a picture of the guy and put it on my refrigerator.

I will not make age an issue…. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

Dalton regarded his chess opponent, from whom the outburst had come. "What on earth has got into you?" Lord Peter sat back, a triumphant smirk on his lips. "I moved!" "Well, congratulations. What did you move?" "Bishop to

he converted not from Judaism to Christianity, of course, but from violent opponent and persecutor of pagan inclusion to nonviolent proponent and persuader of pagan inclusion. That which he persecuted for God was exactly that to which he was called by God.

with Paul, with dusty, tired, much-traveled Paul, came Rome's most dangerous opponent—not legions but ideas, not an alternative force but an alternative faith.

A transparent justice only exhibits with its sustaining context, in dictionaries and law books; otherwise, practically, injustice as its opponent travels everywhere boldly, spiritedly, and effectively.

Sure, beautiful bravery is to bear criticism, and the ugliest cowardliness is to kill the opponent; magnificent winning is to win that all with love, wisdom, and insight, not with a gun and terror.

All life is a battlefield, she used to tell me; whether we like it or not, we are born to fight. We have no choice in this, but we do have the choice of our opponent and our weapon. If we fight other people, often our dear ones, we cannot but lose, but if we choose to fight all that is selfish and violent in us, we cannot but win. There is no such thing as defeat on the spiritual path once we join Sri Krishna, but if we try to fight against him, we shall never know victory.

Non sa niente di come si fa a mazzate: mai perdere di vista l'avversario, al rione non si facevano chiacchiere, al massimo si lanciavano urla a occhi sbarrati per mettere paura e intanto si colpiva per primi, facendo male il più possibile, senza fermarsi, toccava agli altri fermarti se ne erano capaci.

Humanity is as horrified and repulsed by real nature as it is by real death. Thus, we strike back against this formidable opponent with our sharpest weapon: our imagination. From this noble tool—born of necessity and elevated to beauty—culture was born, and the war against nature begun.

I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you're up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.

Italy are a very difficult team to play against. They have good defensive qualities.

I don't pick and choose. I've never really had an qualms about who I fight next.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

You play against an opponent so much the numbers got to match at some point! I played against the Raiders six years straight pretty much. I played against them more than any team I've ever played.

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.