Quotes About Opponent

Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.

I come in the ring to feel, check, and see my opponent. Then I understand him and understand the fight.

You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.

I'm always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it's over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.

The safety of my opponent was critical to me.

I have to respect my opponent, always, doesn't matter who he is, but I'll get in there and win. That's a fact.

Mark Hunt is a formidable opponent, but his style gives Brock Lesnar the best chance to win. Mark Hunt may not be the best-skilled athlete, but when he gets in the ring, you're going to get everything he's got.

You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.

I'm not going to go out there and have these slugfests, but I'll go out there and dominate my opponent. That's what I do in my fight.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

When you ask a guy, 'Are you gonna take a fight if your opponent doesn't make weight?' Is it really asking? Does he really have a choice? When you back them into a corner like that, is there really a choice to be made?

When you are a striker, you need to give a lot of effort for the team, to keep the opponent under pressure, to press them, to win the ball fast - that's what I try to do to help the team. After that, I try to make some goals.

We always try the knockout, but it's hard to get it if the opponent always runs away.

The more irrational you make your opponent, the more control you have over him in the ring.

In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent's goal and have to move into the gaps.

I always go there to put on a fight knowing that my opponent is well prepared and will do his best. That's the challenge that motivates me.

To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.

I love the competition, going out there for 90 minutes, fighting your opponent. If you take this competition away from me, I am not happy.

When I watch Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund side, I see a manager who is determined to play in his opponent's half, who is committed to attacking football, and, from the way he conducts himself on the touchline, is clearly an interesting, charismatic personality.

The only opponent who has been able to keep up with me was Roberto Carlos.

It would be nice to crack America, but I need the opponent to do that. If Eddie Chambers is the best American heavyweight they can dig up, it's a very sad state of affairs.

I always fight better when my opponent's angry.

In karate, there's a lot of respect. In fact, when an opponent accepts to fight me, he's giving me a chance to show my work, so I can't diminish him at all.