There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we’ll be on top after all is said and done.
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it’s the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.
We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.
I want to thank all my team-mates as well as the opponents in red ball cricket. It has been a privilege to play with and against them.
I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I’m able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.
I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I’ve never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.
When you’re a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you’re up against opponents who are playing to put food on the table and you realise it means that much more.
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 future.
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents – greens and anti-greens alike – as toothless. But it was also the first time that nations around the world had officially agreed that climate change was a problem and that concrete steps should be taken to avoid its worst effects.
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
I saw Bob Arum out in America, I saw him walking through the lobby in the MGM Grand. I basically went over and said: ‘You’re running out of opponents for Crawford and I’m the guy to beat him. I’m here.’ I saw Terence Crawford, he said he was ready for it, so everybody is on the same page. Everyone wants to make the fight.
Gadhafi opponents included many ‘good guys,’ but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.
How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me – I’m a European citizen.
In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
I never choose my opponents.
A common mistake made by amateurs is that they fail to take advantage of players who bluff excessively. Instead of playing possum and letting their aggressive opponents continue to bet, beginners raise too early with monster hands, allowing their opponents to fold.
Anyone can look big and strong and fast against weak opponents.
The SEALs rarely call the Taliban ‘terrorists’ because they respect them as worthy opponents.
What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There’s a kid out there who probably wants to beat me. I train hard and try to be the best that I can be, but I don’t disrespect my opponents. I am not disillusioned, either.
I’ve lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.
We have to be strong in ourselves. Whoever defines themselves only through their opponents risks making their entire programme… dependent on others.
With the support of all our fans, we have to be stronger than our opponents.
I don’t look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
The usual practice just isn’t enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.
I’m not really into researching my opponents or other fighters other than the ones that I like.
It’s good to score goals, but my teammates are fantastic – they really support me – but the opponents just want to tackle me hard!
President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you’re a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn’t work too badly, I’ll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.
Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.
The coaches Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna are very detailed in the preparation. We study the weakness of the opponents.
Because of Valentina’s career in MMA and the way she beats her opponents, beating her will be even more important than when I won the strawweight belt.
It’s business inside the ring, but outside it, it’s friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.
The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.
No, because as a fighter, we aren’t really that intimated over other opponents.
I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.
I think everyone has something special. I respect all my opponents. I’ve learned something from all my fights.
My game was all about strength and mauling opponents.
I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.
Am I crazy? My opponents say I am, but I disagree.
I want superfights, to challenge other opponents.
Ronaldo is the best. He’s a truly spectacular, very complete player, with enormous power. Opponents fear him.
All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.
Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it’s more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
There doesn’t need to be hatred after a fight, because it’s all said and done. I’m cool with a lot of my opponents in the UFC. There’s people I’ve fought who were my friends in kickboxing tournaments and after we were still cool.
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Villarreal have played well against difficult opponents. They’re never an easy team to beat.
The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I’m a straight shooter and that I’m a man of my word.
I never wanted anybody to think that I deliberately hurt opponents. The vast majority of players are the same.
A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents – America chief among them – by their worst deeds.
The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.
If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn’t really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.
Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own government.
I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood – not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
The BJP has never considered its political opponents as enemies.
You don’t have to go and criticize your opponents, how bad they are and so on. It is a contest of ideas. I got my ideas, you got your ideas right. We will let Singaporeans decide.
