Opponents Quotes · Page 27

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

— Goran Ivanisevic

My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa, and I refuse to allow my enemies…

— Shervin Pishevar

I watch a couple of fights to get a visual image in my head. I don't like doing a lot of research…

— Robert Whittaker

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

— Adolf Hitler

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

— Leon Panetta

And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work…

— Ellyse Perry

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

— Larry Evans

Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent…

— Paul the Apostle

All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards…

— Octavia Butler

I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most…

— Daniele Bolelli

Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government…

— Elliott Abrams

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's…

— Tiki Barber

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a…

— Phil Jackson

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Jon Stewart

I never wanted anybody to think that I deliberately hurt opponents. The vast majority of players are the same.

— Jamie Carragher

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

— Sun Tzu

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

— Lev Polugaevsky

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from…

— Gichin Funakoshi

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like…

— Kevin Gates

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

— Ravi Zacharias

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

— Max Anders

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect,…

— Georges St-Pierre

I was lucky enough to play against Maradona. He and Ronaldo, when he was at Inter Milan - they were my toughest…

— Paolo Maldini

Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man…

— Chris Jericho

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only…

— Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

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

— Jerry Glanville

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can…

— Gordon Bethune

We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.

— Joe Lauzon

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

— Piers Anthony

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

— Kano Jigoro

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that,…

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

— Ernest Hemingway

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it…

— Vladimir Kramnik

The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.

— Paulo Coelho

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

— Eric Alterman

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16…

— Chuck Todd