Quotes About Opponents

With or without knockouts, every single one of my opponents has always felt my power. I am confident with my power, I know that as soon as I hit them they know that they're not fighting against the likes of some other opponents they have fought in their past.

When you play Leeds, you need players who are quick and who are capable of beating opponents as they like to set up one-v-one.

I have never had more money than my opponents.

I wasn't the type of person to gain much weight after a fight, but at 115 I can be bigger and more powerful than my opponents.

My philosophy is to attack the opponents near their own goal because your own way to the goal is not as along, if you get the ball higher up.

For us it's better to think of our opponents as idiots. It's easier to play hard against someone you don't like than it is to play against a friend.

You gain respect in your opponents' minds when you win a lot of matches.

Any legendary fighter you have ever seen or anyone who is talked about for a long, long time who has shown their heart in the ring and won over crowds and really destroyed their opponents in the ring, that's who I am.

Everybody said I was ducking opponents.

I have that one-punch KO power in both hands but I won't only be going for the head. Most of Floyd's opponents have done that but his defence is so good.

I don't like to choose my opponents.

Some fighters don't like to have their opponents changed on short notice. It really is a complicated situation because you prepared for someone for months, for a fighting style, and then the fight is off, but it's part of the job. It's natural, that's why we train every aspect of MMA.

Because of Valentina's career in MMA and the way she beats her opponents, beating her will be even more important than when I won the strawweight belt.

Before the fight I don't like to talk a lot of crap about my opponents, it's nothing personal, when it comes to interviews or anything like that. But once I get in there, I make it personal. This is my livelihood, my life is either going to go up or go down depending on what happens right here, so it's really personal. I make that guy my enemy.

I learned a lot with Andre Villas-Boas at Porto. He is very intelligent tactically. He was almost so well informed about the opponents that we pretty much knew everything about them when we went out on to the pitch. It was scary how much we knew.

All my opponents are tough, but the one opponent who was most difficult for me was Pedro Rizzo.

I don't know Suarez very well, but I believe he and Cavani have a similar style. They have that Uruguayan style and for them losing the ball almost doesn't exit. They consider their team-mates and are always working for others. Both are very challenging opponents. They're a really a powerful front-two.

I love showing off my skills on the pitch. You can make opposing players look stupid.

We center backs had to cover a lot of ground, and we had to be very physical with the opposing strikers.

Anybody wants to challenge me, if anybody gets in my way, right, if anybody ticks me off, those are all possible options for people that I want to throw down with at 'SummerSlam.'

Because we have a society that by and large is illiterate in these areas - science, math and engineering - what we do is a mystery to them, and they find it scary. And because of that, it creates easy opportunities for opponents of development, activist organizations, to manufacture fear.

Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.

In Fourth Generation war, the state loses its monopoly on war. All over the world, state militaries find themselves fighting nonstate opponents such as al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Almost everywhere, the state is losing.

Pretending to others that your opponents are stupid may sometimes be a sensible tactic. Believing that they are is usually a serious mistake.