Opponent Quotes

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

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

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.

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.

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.