Quotes About Opponent

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

I think there's a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how they're going to go after that lineup. I'd say 75 percent want to have an idea, and they plan their attack. I know that 75 percent of hitters do not have that same type of plan against a pitcher.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

I just want to help, first of all, the Chicago Fire to grow, to change the mentality to a winning team, and to reach the playoffs. That's my goal. But also to change the game style into a team which is able to control every opponent.

I think the playoffs heighten everything, you're fighting the same opponent over and over again.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent—a far more difficult and complex task.

What cannot be accomplished by threats can often be achieved by composure. Sit and stare and let your opponent fill the silence with his own demons.

when the one-legged Marquis de Rivard was challenged, he sent a surgeon in reply and suggested that in the interests of fighting "on an equal footing" his opponent should submit to a similar amputation. The duel was called off.

I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids. It's got four thousand attack power, I coaxed. Five thousand, Nico corrected. But only if your opponent attacks first. I smiled. Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while.

You know you're winning, in politics, when your opponent steals your ideas. - Bernie Leckwith

He decided to raise the stakes. "I agree with much of what Brother Hildred says," he began. In an argument it was always wise to show respect for your opponent: people disliked antipathy.

He's a bad man to have as an enemy.