Opponent Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.