Opponent Quotes - page 8

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself. (Athol Fugard)
And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good. View quote
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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 look ahead. View quote
Chuck Noll
Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way. View quote
Caroline Wozniacki
You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state. View quote
David Axelrod
Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn't matter if it's a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it's going through consistently, it's demoralizing for any opponent. View quote
Dwyane Wade
The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over. View quote
Eric Snow
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 to him running. View quote
Harold Ford, Jr.
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. View quote
Harsha Bhogle
To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has. View quote
J. B. Smoove
Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war. (Jan Schakowsky)
Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you. View quote
Jenna Morasca
My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt. View quote
Joe Kyrillos
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. View quote
Joe Scarborough
I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you're through. View quote
Julia Quinn
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. View quote
Mark Russell
When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it. View quote
Mark Takano
Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds. View quote
Bradley A. Smith
In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you. View quote
Chris Adami
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. View quote
Claiborne Pell
The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment. (Guo Guangchang)
I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent. View quote
Mary Pierce
I didnt want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me. View quote
Mary Pierce
You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance. View quote
Michelle Wie
President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do. View quote
Rob Portman