Quotes About Adversaries

I've fought the best in the world.

I fought every kind of boxer.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

I know that pretty much everybody I face is going to wind up wanting to take me down eventually.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbours.

the moral unity of all things attained by the exclusion of those who opposed me.

Garde tes amis près de toi, et tes ennemis encore plus près.

and unruly. Adversaries were sometimes in T-shirts, eating watermelon or sharing a bottle of scotch. In rare cases

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.

Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.

If you want to succeed, get some enemies.

Moving into our small American housing enclave above the city were the families of American officers stationed in Saigon, and the free-ranging game of Cowboys and Indians that we boys in the neighborhood had previously played was renamed Green Berets and Viet Cong. It didn't actually change the game that much, except that in the past the Indians sometimes won, and in the new version the Viet Cong never did.

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.