Opponent Quotes - page 3

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score. (Darrell Royal)
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down. View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents. View quote
Hale Irwin
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. View quote
Jimmy Connors
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. View quote
Lance Morrow
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters. View quote
Marc Morial
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. View quote
Martin Van Creveld
I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before. View quote
Matt Gonzalez
Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think cant be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege. View quote
Michael Baumgartner
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, for but not quite so much of it. View quote
Pete du Pont
Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language. (Pete du Pont)
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. View quote
Pat Riley
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different. View quote
Retief Goosen
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. View quote
Sadaharu Oh
Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy. View quote
Tyson Fury
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. View quote
Andy Murray
I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. View quote
John McCain
If you're very very rich, you can buy your Senate seat by spending as much of your money as you want. Meanwhile, your poor plebian opponent is running around groveling for the small contributions allowed by law. Hence the Corzines and the Kohls, who parachute into Congress seemingly out of nowhere. Having given this leg up to the rich, we should resist packing our legislatures with yet more privileged parachutists, the well-born. True, the Brits did it that way for centuries, but with characteristic honesty. They established a house of Parliament exclusively for high-born twits and ensconced them there for life. There they chatter away in supreme irrelevance deep into their dotage. Problem is that the U.S. Senate retains House of Commons powers even as it develops a House of Lords membership. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law. View quote
Demosthenes
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. (Paulo Coelho)
China isn't the only authoritarian regime in the world, but it's undoubtedly the wealthiest, strongest and most developed in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This makes Xi Jinping the most dangerous opponent of those who believe in the concept of open society. View quote
George Soros
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 conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic. View quote
Anatoly Karpov
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Another may be more expert in casting [throwing] his opponent; but he is not more social, nor more modest, nor better disciplined to meet all that happens, nor more considerate with respect to the faults of his neighbors. View quote
Marcus Aurelius