Quotes About Opponent

Yet citizens did not speak up because they had always divided themselves up between those (others) who read Vorwärts and those (of us) who did not. You can only preserve the civic order if you step in for your opponent and speak out against your ally.

Before each series I spent a lot of time visualizing new ways to neutralize our next opponent's attack.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. - Life of Pi

Canelo isn't a full light-middleweight like I am, and that's to my advantage.

Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.

I've been training my whole life with southpaws. It's annoying to fight a guy who's a southpaw, but nothing that I haven't see.

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

Anytime you get to play a team twice, you have a feel for what they do and how they play.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

Argentina is not a bad team.

Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.

The man who draws first sparks an unconscious response from a trained opponent, who tends to draw more smoothly and with greater speed. It is counter-intuitive, but as Japanese kendo fighters will affirm, the instinctive reaction after thousands of hours of training is often faster than a blow resulting from a controlled decision. On

the shadow is not necessarily always an opponent. In fact, he is exactly like any human being with whom one has to get along, sometimes by giving in, sometimes by resisting, sometimes by giving love—whatever the situation requires. The shadow becomes hostile only when he is ignored or misunderstood.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

I would love to see Wladimir Klitschko fight Antonio Tarver for many reasons. One is Tarver talks a lot; he would build up a big fight. And Tarver is coming off of a great victory. So I think he would be a good opponent.

The whole idea behind going ahead with this Chisora fight was that a victory may then lead to a fight with Vitali Klitschko.

I'm going to work on finishing Mark Hunt, but he's very hard to hold down. I feel like that's the best opportunity for victory for me.

Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane.

A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.