Quotes About Opponent

I have a really strong opponent in Randy Orton. A former multi-time world champion. He's held just about every title under the sun. And he's done it all in a major way. He's basically wreaked havoc and ran roughshod over the WWE for quite some time. Some people might forget that.

I came from the soccer world, so all I knew was get the ball in that net. And when you're working with WWE, you're pretty much doing stunt work. You have to train and make sure you're safe and you're safe for your opponent, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.

Samoa Joe is an opponent that I really wanted to face in the ring. There was a time when you never thought that you will able to see Samoa Joe in a WWE setting but that has changed and this can be considered to be one of my fantasy bookings.

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

There's a cumulative effort within the course of a game, a series, and a season, too, where you see so many pitches and have so many at-bats that you can wear down an opponent. Once you develop that reputation as a club, year after year, players come in, and they tend to fit in with that profile.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

I had Jake Ellenberger. I trained very hard for him; then I was able to get Carlos Condit, an excellent fighter. That's what it's all about.

We kind of understand at this level of the game when you work your way up to the top there's a possibility you may be facing somebody you've trained with before.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

Not having a trainer is basically just giving an edge to my opponent, and I'm not willing to do that anymore.

You need to know your mistakes, as well as your opponent's mistakes. So you need to make sure the trainer is paying significant importance to you and your fighter, and every detail of it.

Cruyff was one of the best, he was my hero and my example. He was a star at the same time as George Best, fantastic to watch. I knew him later on, he became my trainer, my adviser, my team-mate, my opponent. It was easier for me to play with him than to speak to him.

Whoever has put you into this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time, you will become predictable, and a predictable enemy is much easier to defeat than one who treats his adversaries to a surprise on a regular basis.

Mais il suffit d'une seconde pour faire comprendre que, le hasard n'y ayant aucune part, c'est une absurdité de vouloir jouer contre soi-même. L'attrait du jeu d'échecs réside tout entier en ceci que deux cerveaux s'y affrontent, chacun avec sa tactique […] vouloir jouer aux échecs contre soi-même est donc aussi paradoxal que vouloir marcher sur son ombre.

Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

Every single person in the profession has an engine as a helper now. The engines contain six or seven million games, searchable by opening move, player, country, time control. That makes it possible to really research your opponent.

I don't go into a game thinking I'm going to run more than I'm going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.