Opponent Quotes

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

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.

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

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

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

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.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.