Quotes About Opponent

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

I just play hard-hitting football, but at least I look the opponent in the face before I hit him.

I don't feel my opponent's power. I feel something happening when I get hit, but I don't feel power.

I sometimes lose my calm for a moment, but only when I notice that an opponent is deliberately trying to injure me.

Football doesn't depend just on your brain. It's not like on a computer. It depends on your body, too, and sometimes you are tired. Sometimes the opponent closes the space very well and marks you very well. Football depends on many things, not just on you.

People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

The higher the opponent for me, the more that I shine.

I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.

People are anticipating my next move, and whatever it's going to be, it's going to be big. I'm not fussy over my opponent.

I get a lot of front ball in a position that, normally, the opponent's defense is making the move outwards, and our attackers are getting in.

I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad - frequently not my dad - and then one of us would play his opponent.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

It's always important to respect your opponent.

You try to say every week that you're facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is - first game of the season, last game of the season.

I would never discredit the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the fight. I've always thought it's a very underhanded thing to do, and it's a very cowardly thing to do, to come out and say, 'I'm hurt,' particularly if you win a fight.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

I don't respect any opponent when I'm in the ring.

Suffering makes me hungry. Suffering allows me to put some hurt in my opponent. It's a good thing.

When you're leading 4-1, the opponent has nothing to lose.

With any opponent there's always a challenge and something to watch for.

If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.

The game is a war, and in a war you fight. My opponent is just the director of the opponent's army.