Opponent Quotes

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.

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.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

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.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

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.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

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

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.