Opponents Quotes

832 Opponents quotes by 548 unique authors

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. — Maxwell Maltz
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
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. — Wynton Marsalis
I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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.
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that… — Jon Meacham
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
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. — Jose Mourinho
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite… — Dee Dee Myers
Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the… — Rafael Nadal
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he… — Richard M. Nixon
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
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their… — Barack Obama
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
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. — George Orwell
When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the… — Rick Perry
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a… — Max Planck
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die… — Max Planck
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is… — Dennis Prager
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. — Pat Riley
I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists. — Marco Rubio
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts.… — Donald Rumsfeld
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the… — Paul Ryan

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