Opponent Quotes

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

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.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.