Opponent Quotes
541 Opponent quotes by 340 unique authors
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When you train, you should train as if on the battlefield. Make your eyes glare, lower your shoulders and harden your body. If you train…
— Anko Itosu
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The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
— Criss Jami
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I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of…
— George Galloway
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
— Demosthenes
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I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your…
— Tony Dungy
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Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that…
— Paul Feig
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent…
— Harold Ford, Jr.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
— Jesse Helms
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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing…
— Evander Holyfield
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
— Hale Irwin
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If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game…
— Anatoly Karpov
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure,…
— Vince Lombardi
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Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
— Maxwell Maltz
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The…
— David Mamet
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that…
— Jose Mourinho
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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…
— Chuck Noll
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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…
— Barack Obama
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
— George Orwell
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
— Pat Riley
Who Wrote These Opponent Quotes
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