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Quotes About Opponent

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.
~ David Bronstein
Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.
~ Roberto Duran
Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
~ Annie Dillard
We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
~ Wayne Gretzky
Su oponente era alguien que sabía que, a menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.
~ John Katzenbach
Most of the coverage I received was fine. I didn't agree with all of it. I disliked the criticism I received, although I earned some of it. I also understand why my opponent's campaign made such good copy and attracted more attention than ours did. He was new news. I wasn't. And most reporters were more aligned with his politics than mine.
~ John McCain
Oxford smiled and Kit still knew him well enough to read the pleasure of a chess player who has successfully anticipated his opponent.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.
~ B.F. Skinner
Decisive results come sooner from sudden shocks than from long- drawn pressure. Shocks throw the opponent off his balance. Pressure allows him time to adjust himself to it. That military lesson is closely linked with the general experience of history that human beings have an almost infinite power of accommo-' dation, to degradation of living conditions, so long as the process is gradual.
~ B.H. Liddell Hart
Water shapes its course according to the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
~ B.H. Liddell Hart
Martin Skrtel is good at rattling the opposing centre-forward.
~ Paul Scholes
I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.
~ Jason Witten
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
There's no drill that you can do as a DB to get ready for what I do on the field.
~ Davante Adams
I don't take anybody for granted, but I see myself beating each and every fighter that I face.
~ Anthony Johnson
I know from playing against Mata that he's a great player.
~ Chris Smalling
Neymar is a great player, it is so difficult to mark him.
~ Fred
When I got the call to guard Magic, I knew that I could cause him a lot of problems.
~ Scottie Pippen
When I guard LeBron, I used to always want him to shoot, but he would just make the right play. He's legendary for making the right play, and it's really hard to guard when you're a team player.
~ Metta World Peace
Struve has great jiu-jitsu and I must avoid that. But when I'm in his guard, I can't be defensive, I have to go for kimuras, americanas and all of that.
~ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
What would I do if I were being guarded by Marcus Smart? There's not much you can do!
~ Marcus Smart
In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
~ Amar'e Stoudemire
Furthermore, one does not fight an enemy on the turf on which he is strongest, but where he is weakest.
~ George B.N. Ayittey