It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you’re…

Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

— Rafael dos Anjos

I always fight better when my opponent's angry.

— David Haye

What I try to do is find a weakness in my opponent. A way that I can hit you. One good, clean shot. Try…

— Keith Thurman

It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so…

— Saku Koivu

Samoa Joe is an opponent that I really wanted to face in the ring. There was a time when you never thought that you…

— Kofi Kingston

Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good…

— Sarah Steelman

“If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.”

— Gary T. Smith

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

— Paulo Coelho

“You can only beat the opponent, who makes a mistake”

— Tony Blauer

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

— Emma Goldman

He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against…

— Ricky Hatton

Anytime I've won a fight and asked for an opponent, I've usually gotten it, and that's because it's all well thought-out.

— Michael Chiesa

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

— Edmar Mednis

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count…

— Harry Vardon

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.

— Chris Murphy