Quotes About Opponents

I think everybody respects Real Madrid; nobody wants to play against us.

Barcelona, Real Madrid, City - there are many teams you'd want to play against.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

You don't take anything for granted when you play in the European game because it's so different, sizing each other up takes a game.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're not guaranteed to get the best fights.

I try to use my athleticism and my strength to be able to guard bigger guys, and being able to guard bigger guys is going to get me more minutes on the floor.

There's not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It's a short list.

Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.

It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.

When I go on the basketball court, I don't think about who's guarding me.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

Defenses usually are trying to take away the guys who are getting a lot of catches earlier in the season.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.

Every game is different. Every opposition comes with a different threat.

Pathology by Daesh is distinctively to swallow its opponents, to frighten the population. In that regard, the threat is very real.

Since I was in the youth team I would love to dribble past opponents with a dummy. That tendency got even stronger under Giampiero Ventura at Bari, as we never threw the ball away.

Willie Roaf kicked my butt a couple of times. Larry Allen was a guard, but one time in San Francisco he took me with one hand and threw me out of the play. Walter Jones was pretty tough, too.

I always thrive on wanting to play against the best.

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.

I respect my opponents, I learned that from life. I used to think I would step in there, throw one punch and the other girl would go down and not get up again. Everytime I thought that, I lost.