Opponents Quotes · Page 25

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought…

— Ice T

“Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their…

— Robert Greene

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

— Savielly Tartakower

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

— Samuel Johnson

It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be…

— Maury John

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for…

— Paul Keating

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often,…

— Dave Barry

I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated.…

— Rick Riordan

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a…

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't give a f***. We're not fighting. I don't care what anyone thinks about me. All the stuff I have to…

— Conor McGregor

The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever…

— Keith Richards

You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work…

— James Ponsoldt

You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the…

— Johan Cruijff

I lost many souvenir shirts of my Champions League football, and also some of the opponents, like Iniesta and Pogba.

— Victor Wanyama

Every boxer is tough for me. I don't think any opponent is better than any other. Every opponent is the same for…

— Celestino Caballero

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

— Jacob Lew

I don't think I'm a bad guy from Dagestan. I think I'm a good guy from Dagestan. But for my opponents, for…

— Khabib Nurmagomedov

The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

— G. Edward Griffin

If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.

— Vitali Klitschko

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

— James Anthony Froude

(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.

— Celestino Caballero

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your…

— Dale Carnegie

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

— Tacitus

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

— Sun Tzu

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter…

— Georges St-Pierre

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you…

— Dale Carnegie

There's a quote that says, 'If you know yourself and you know your opponent, you shouldn't fear the results of 100 battles.'…

— Jon Jones

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

— Marco Rubio

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

— David Gemmell

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is…

— Akbar Ganji

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events,…

— David Crane

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

— Criss Jami

It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that…

— James Lileks

After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest…

— Peter Sagal