I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and…

— Paul Feig

Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm…

— Jonathan Gottschall

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as…

— James S.A. Corey

You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw…

— Jerry Glanville

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

— David Beckham

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

— Paulo Coelho

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right…

— Adolf Hitler

I've lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.

— Dereck Chisora

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

— Millie Bright

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,…

— Pete du Pont

If you start beating opponents in their backyard is when you give yourself a chance to remain No.1.

— Gautam Gambhir