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Fitch isn’t as much of a finisher as Thiago Alves, he’s more about grinding his opponent into the ground – literally. With my jiu-jitsu, I could withstand that and do better than a lot of guys have done.
With Tottenham’s Mousa Dembele, there is a long list of reasons why he is an opponent I would hate to face.
I’m not going to bag on people and make funny jokes about my opponent. I just respect every opponent I go in against.
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.
I never focus on my opponent – I focus more on myself: knowing what my strengths are, where I can take the fight, how I can win the fight, and the intensity that I’m going to bring to a fight.
The opponent never matters to me. That’s something I’ve always said.
One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.
Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don’t just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.
The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.
I played against Ashley Cole all the time in training. For me, he is the best left-back in the world. He was the hardest opponent and I had him every day in training.
I don’t care if it’s someone cutting down from heavyweight, or moving up from middleweight to light heavyweight. It’s just another opponent, and I have to do a great job.
Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
‘Oh and Oh’ is a tennis term… It’s a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
Mark Hunt is a formidable opponent, but his style gives Brock Lesnar the best chance to win. Mark Hunt may not be the best-skilled athlete, but when he gets in the ring, you’re going to get everything he’s got.
I give the utmost importance to each opponent; otherwise, I can’t move forward.
In a tiebreaker, you generally have a lot of adrenaline running through. It’s all about just holding your serve, trying to hold two serves at a time, trying to stay ahead in the tiebreaker, constantly put pressure on my opponent.
I came from the soccer world, so all I knew was get the ball in that net. And when you’re working with WWE, you’re pretty much doing stunt work. You have to train and make sure you’re safe and you’re safe for your opponent, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.
For sure, Jacare would be a great opponent. I have all the respect for him, but I would like a lot to have the opportunity of facing him someday.
I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.
If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.
If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.
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.
When I get in there, I’m not really worried about scoring. I’m just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I’ve been a scorer all my life, so that’s what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.
The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.
You can see that mistakes in the Bundesliga are punished harshly and that we can have problems against every opponent if we don’t play at the limit – even if it is the bottom of the table.
I am not the kind of person who always hopes for the easiest opponent.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.
I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent’s racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
A gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics is what I’m looking for. I have to pace my training in such a way that I’m at my best in Rio, and when I’m in form, no opponent can come in my way.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission.
I’ve been eight weeks into a fight camp, two weeks out from a fight, having paid coaches, booked plane tickets, and invested quite a bit of money in my camp, only to not be able to fight because my opponent got hurt. Boom. I’m out that money. It sucks.
In No Limit hold’em tournaments, size your bets based on your opponent’s skill level. You can cut corners by betting wisely – save a little here and make a little extra there.
Rio Ferdinand is the hardest opponent I have faced – strong and quick. He didn’t kick you. He was so classy. I could do all my step-overs, but he would watch the ball and tackle so immaculately. He only got the ball.
I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It’s very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don’t understand boxing, they don’t know what he’s capable to do. I understand it all.
Just before a fight, as the ring empties, you can feel it. There is danger and loneliness all around you. Soon it’s just the three of you in there: the referee, your opponent, and you. You’re in a very lonely moment then. But, strangely, that’s when I feel most comfortable. The ring becomes my office, and I go to work.
I’d take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what’s going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there’s always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.
When you ask a guy, ‘Are you gonna take a fight if your opponent doesn’t make weight?’ Is it really asking? Does he really have a choice? When you back them into a corner like that, is there really a choice to be made?
A final is about winning. You can’t wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.
When you have the chance to finish off your opponent, you must do it. You shouldn’t give them chances to come back.
I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad – frequently not my dad – and then one of us would play his opponent.
Where the opponent is in the rankings means nothing.
Paul Ryan is loved in our state because he’s a conservative who has advocated for conservative policies, and Donald Trump coming out saying favorable things about Mr. Ryan’s opponent doesn’t add to the number of voters in Wisconsin that’ll vote Donald Trump.
You don’t want your opponent to score. You don’t want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.
It’s true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent.
If my opponent wants to think of me as a dunker, it’s just gonna shock them more when I show them another part of my game.
Our objective is always to do something that hasn’t been done before, but the opponent has a lot of say over how that works out.
A lack of grace involves much more than critiquing an opponent. It looks a lot more like the ad hominem attacks the president launches nearly daily against all who aren’t actively worshiping him. It looks like Trump’s relentless attempts to pit Americans against one another.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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 welfare from our taxpayers.
The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden’s rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it’s Sweden.
I have a healthy respect. The fact that I get ready for each opponent shows my respect.
I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.
I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent’s army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It’s a beautiful, bloodless war.
As a player, I loved being tackled, whether it was in training or in a game. I took a full-blooded challenge as an invitation to do exactly the same thing to an opponent. I would wait for my opportunity and nine times out of 10, I would get him back.
Chael is a pretty tough and strategic opponent and very hard to put down.
The opponent I have most admired during my career is Paolo Maldini.
The higher the opponent for me, the more that I shine.
Of course, every game and opponent is different.
Any opponent can be a stumbling block.
As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.
When I get the opportunity to get the ball, I’ve got to destroy my opponent.
My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.
Knowing your opponent is fundamental. Because then you can know their characteristics better.
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
I’d say I’m a front foot defender; I never hesitate to go in for a challenge. You have to get one over your opponent and dominate them.
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess.
I feel like I’ve got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.
Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won’t seem to go away.
Our ambition is to win every game regardless of the opponent.
Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.
For me, I think the toughest player I came up against was Messi; he’s out of this world, he’s a genius. For me he’s the best in the world, a great player and I think he’s the toughest opponent I’ve played against.
After your career, you go to matches, and you see so many unnecessary goals because a person is just looking where the ball is and not his opponent. Well, a ball alone has never scored a goal.
All my opponents are tough, but the one opponent who was most difficult for me was Pedro Rizzo.
I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that’s 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don’t know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.
I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don’t know if there’s just one who I say, ‘that guy intimidates me.’ When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.
You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you’re trying to beat your opponent. You’re doing everything you physically can to win on that day.
All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager’s mind.
Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.
I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: ‘What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?’
Cruyff’s idea was, quite literally, to play football – nothing more, nothing less. His idea of how football should be played was based not on controlling the opponent, but on the ball and the game.
You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.
As I traveled around the league for FOX and called games, really good coaches know how to exploit the weakness of an opponent.
People are anticipating my next move, and whatever it’s going to be, it’s going to be big. I’m not fussy over my opponent.
A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your opponent’s nose – even in the matter of political rhetoric.
In ‘Dragon Ball,’ the characters have a challenge. They know they have to push their bodies to the limit in their training so they can make sure to defeat their opponent, much like professional football players.
Rebrasse was a good opponent, a tough guy, he took an awful lot of punches. I knew it was going to be tough. I didn’t want to run out of steam, I felt in great condition but you always have to be cautious against a guy who has never been stopped.
It’s true there are a lot of frustrations, but it’s down to me to try to put them to the side and concentrate on what’s essential to me, my game and also to adapt to the opponent.
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
Only few people have same level as Iron Sheik – the Brock Lesnar and the Kurt Angle. Back in the day, they both be good opponent for me. They know I could break their ankle if I want.
It’s just about keeping the momentum going, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Champions League or Premier League or whatever trophy you’re going for, you’ve got to focus on the opponent that lies ahead.
I don’t feel my opponent’s power. I feel something happening when I get hit, but I don’t feel power.
My experience in decision-making has shown that patterns are tough to break. In the military, we study an opponent, looking for gaps, flaws, or weaknesses that can be exploited. Successful leaders at all levels in all disciplines conduct this kind of analysis.
The more irrational you make your opponent, the more control you have over him in the ring.
GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he’s good in standup and good at grappling.
I think Cormier is a great opponent. He’s a guy who has competed at the highest level of athletics and I’m going to have to train really hard for him.
Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.
I was so empty. I didn’t always feel physically bad. I was able to play, but I wasn’t there 100%. I felt I was fighting this strange feeling rather than the opponent; I couldn’t really describe what was going on.
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.
In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.
I was Michael Chandler twice. I had to do his game twice. We’ve deciphered him, but he’s still a very dangerous opponent. He’s very strong with the takedowns, his knockout power is violent, but he’s not a complete guy. He fights well, has good takedowns and heavy ground and pound, does well on the ground.
While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team’s victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.
We have always found it easier, and still do, when the opponent plays football as well, when they don’t just think in defensive terms, don’t just sit inside their penalty box. It’s just nicer when the opponent plays football.
As a competitive athlete, you always want to come out on top and give your best work. So whether it’s my sister or any other opponent, I’m competitive.
I’m a football player and I have respect for every opponent, every defender and every team, but I’m not afraid of anyone and I’m not afraid to take them on and to make things happen.
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one’s opponent will never become a good Chess player.
If you’ve got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn’t you want that information – to vet it, to see if it’s real information, and to use it accordingly?
When you train outside of camp, it’s fun, I’m playing around, I’m working hard but I’m having fun. When I get into that camp it’s 10 weeks of tunnel vision on that opponent, you’re trying to work on your strengths and weaknesses, really trying to get better in different areas before the fight.
You try to find ways to trip up your opponent. And if somebody comes to you and says, ‘I’ve got, you know, the smoking gun on the… Clinton campaign,’ you have that meeting. You definitely have that meeting.
The Scottish game is not easy – far from it.You don’t have so much time on the ball. There are aggressive defenders but it is good. Every opponent likes to mark closely so it is not so easy to score. In Germany there was more space to run into other areas of the pitch.
You’re naturally the villain when you go in an opponent’s stadium anyway, so you might as well not shy away from it. You just bask in it and enjoy it.
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent’s can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
For me, it’s all the time a big challenge to play against the best player of the opponent. I think only with this I can develop and grow for myself.
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.
When one day I leave Manchester United I don’t want to think, ‘I should have analysed the opponent more, I should have worked harder.’
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
I never picked an opponent.
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.
Back in my days, my favorite opponent was Diego Maradona.
I break people’s faces. I break their arms. I break their legs. That’s a part of the sport. That’s my job. That’s the job of the opponent who’s trying to do the same thing to me.
I want to go as hard as I can, and if I look like a guy out there playing ball, well, hey, I feel sorry for the opponent.
The moonsault – I climb to the top rope and back flip onto my opponent. It’s very effective but can be risky if my opponent moves out of the way.
Every fighter fights in the ring the way his opponent lets him fight.
I knew Avila was going to be a tough, strong opponent. I cracked him a few times early, but he kept bouncing back every time. When I knocked him down, I could tell he wasn’t hurt and was impressed by his toughness. He brought out the best in me.
Every single person in the profession has an engine as a helper now. The engines contain six or seven million games, searchable by opening move, player, country, time control. That makes it possible to really research your opponent.
People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.
You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.
Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that’s when you score the goals.
Just my two cents: Even as a Christian, I love boxing because it’s the ultimate stand-alone test of a competitor’s skill and will. Just two opponents, lightly gloved, and a referee ready to jump in and stop it the moment he believes one opponent can no longer defend himself.
Even if you win, or you lose, you have to respect your opponent.
If the opponent can score 10 goals, then we need to change something quickly.
Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can’t 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.
I don’t like knowing about other people’s feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent’s hand. You are sure to lose.
I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
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.
Tecia is a tough opponent, both standing and on the ground, and has evolved a lot. She hits hard and can take a punch.
I’m not surprised by Mazzarri’s ability, I knew him as an opponent.
Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself.
When I analyse an opponent I do not look at the results. I try to find out how they score goals, concede, build up play, counter attack, counter-press, other things. So the result doesn’t count for much.
I’ve learned from every single fight, every single opponent – some great fighters.
In a street fight there is no time-limit, no weight division, you don’t choose your opponent.
Glover Teixeira is a phenomenal opponent.
There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you’re about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you’re tired, you can’t show that at all to an opponent.
I don’t just study my opponent; I study myself. It’s something you have to do to get better.
I think what’s dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, ‘Well, I can totally handle myself now.’ But if my opponent didn’t know the other half of the routine, I don’t know how well I’d do.
In the UK brand, I would personally like to have a continued rivalry with Mark Andrews, he’s always my favorite opponent and if I could do that in different stages with WWE then I would be really happy.
If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.
Something I worked very hard on, especially last year, was being more outgoing on the court: recognising good points I’d played and trusting myself and my skills on the court. The fist pumps weren’t necessarily to let my opponent know I was here, more to let myself know that I’m here.
You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn’t expect.
He’s a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you’d have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against whatever opponent he faces.
As tennis players, we’re ingrained from a young age to not show anything – tiredness, fear – or your opponent is going to know and you don’t want that to happen.
I always say when the opponent was better.
The most difficult opponent is Neymar.
I prepare the same for every opponent.
I will take every match seriously and respect every opponent.
If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
I’m talking to my teammates and talking to the opponent. That’s the type of player I am.
Oscar De La Hoya looks good boxing, but you have to consider the opponent.
The season is a beast within itself. It’s not the quickest race; it’s a marathon. In the playoffs – if you’re fortunate enough to make the playoffs – that’s more like a dash. You have to concentrate on one opponent. When they’re done, you have to concentrate on another one.
Whatever UFC wants to do or any opponent they want to give me, I’ll be ready for that.
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don’t try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with ‘How?’ or ‘What?’ so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.
Back in the day, when a man in a wig had to ‘lip sync for their life,’ they relied on a wig reveal, rose petals or picking up their opponent and twirling them around.
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.
It’s always important to respect your opponent.
In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I’m so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
Rafa is the toughest opponent to start a campaign against.
If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn’t wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.
My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.
Caceres was a vocal and brave indigenous leader, an opponent of the 2009 Honduran coup that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, made possible.
You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.
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.
In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama’s inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama’s race against him.
I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work – more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself or John Faso. So what that means is that if you’re a voter in this district you are more likely to have heard from a super PAC than from me or my opponent.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
With any opponent there’s always a challenge and something to watch for.
There are so many X-factors going on in the ring. You have to protect your opponent. You have to be conscious of what your opponent is going through and make sure they’re safe.
In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.
The game is a war, and in a war you fight. My opponent is just the director of the opponent’s army.
The toughest opponent for me would have been Randy Savage, the Macho Man, because his intensity paralleled mine.
I am a passionate opponent of fox hunting because the fox runs in fear of its life over a prolonged period, hearing the hounds getting closer and closer. Barbarous does not even begin to describe such a sport.
Suffering makes me hungry. Suffering allows me to put some hurt in my opponent. It’s a good thing.
When you go out on to that field it’s going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent’s hand.
We can’t focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.
I know how good I am, and I know where I can go if I’m in the right mindset and respecting my opponent.
The only opponent who has been able to keep up with me was Roberto Carlos.
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
You have to pay the same amount of detail regardless of opponent when so much is on the line.
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 extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.
You can never make the mistake of underestimating an opponent, especially in the Champions League.
It’s a disadvantage when there is not enough footage of an opponent.
The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.
I don’t do nervous, really. You always have to respect your opponent, respect the game of football, and be 100 per cent focused.
You have to respect the opponent as much as possible.
You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
When you’re young, you might not be ready to deal with the frustration of playing the big guys and dealing with their power. But we move better, we see the ball earlier, we can play faster. That’s why you see smaller guys able to compete. We use the power of our opponent.
That has to help if you know the mentality of your opponent, and how he wants to play.
In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it’s your job not to show any expression to your opponent.
Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.
I don’t underestimate any opponent.
Fighting your opponent’s strengths is the key, you frustrate them on what they have best.
Liverpool are a very powerful opponent.
You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.
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 opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
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.
I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent – a bit of confidence and attitude – and then you can change what their next move may be.
I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he’s a tough opponent.
Michael Chandler’s performance in his UFC debut was great. His opponent was great, but it felt like he was mentally unprepared to face Michael Chandler. He crumbled to his pressure and movement early.
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that’s part of sports.
My wife understands it’s a business and I’m working for her and our son. But I never worry about it during a training camp because the focus is my opponent and only him.
At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
I don’t focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent’s fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.
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.
Jiu-jitsu teaches you not to hurt your opponent, and that’s inside of me.
This is a full-contact sport. It’s the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You’ve got to use your technique.
People say of every opponent, ‘When are you going to knock him out?’ But I’m not like Mike Tyson, who came flying out of his corner. I’m much more composed. A guy is supposed to be durable, but then I start finding my range, and, well, it comes together. Boom.
Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before an election when candidates release scandalous stories to garner bad publicity for their opponent: the timing means the accused will have little time to refute the allegations.
You don’t want to be down 2-0 in a series. It’s always important to try and get one on the opponent’s home court. It makes your job at home easier.
When you match my body size with my talent and my work ethic and my IQ as a boxer inside that ring, I really have it all, and I’m flexible enough to really jump up to any weight – ’40, ’47 or ’54, for the right opponent.
I think the playoffs heighten everything, you’re fighting the same opponent over and over again.
My opponent DeLuca is a strong, gutsy fighter who is always ready for war.
If I can’t defend my opponent and if he scores as much I’m scoring then he won the matchup.
This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that’s what I was able to do today.
I’ve won titles at home, I’ve won them abroad, I’ve defended titles abroad and lost them, and gone on to dominate my next opponent to win them back.
The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can’t be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.
Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent’s hand, whether they’re white or black or red or blue.
There’s no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post ‘Sopranos’ parodies or play your opponent’s macaca moments. But in a ‘net root’ sense, it’s pretty useless for getting someone elected.
I dont really care what other people think, Ive always said that. At the end of the day its really about us and we want to play our football against a good opponent – whether other people like it or dont like it is pretty irrelevant to be honest.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
I feel blessed that I have a tough opponent in Justin Lawrence.
Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.
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.
My mother is the toughest opponent. Many people think she would go easy on me, but that’s not the case.
You try to say every week that you’re facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is – first game of the season, last game of the season.
It is basic, serve at the weak point of your opponent.
I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.
Outside of Ring of Honor, I’ve also been working independent shows throughout the world, and lots of people I’ve never wrestled before and it’s almost a different opponent every match.
My objective as a mentor, as a father, as a manager and as a former participant of the great game of boxing is to protect mine, but also the opponent. Especially if I can see things which I have experienced before.
If you don’t take an opponent serious, they surprise you.
When we’re leading during the game, we have to squeeze the opponent.
I don’t worry about what my opponent is doing.
You have to think tactically and you can’t just go in and swing against the first best opponent.
Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.
You are there to score goals, and doing so shows respect for your opponent, it demonstrates that you are taking him seriously.
I always fight better when my opponent’s angry.
I had a lot of rematches in the amateurs. You don’t always know what an opponent’s going to do. I do find that I beat them more easily second time around.
I hit very hard and every time I land a punch I hurt my opponent.
Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.
You always have to put pressure on an opponent.
I sometimes lose my calm for a moment, but only when I notice that an opponent is deliberately trying to injure me.
I don’t think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that doesn’t fit the reality with 22 players on the pitch. If the opponent is only half a metre to the left, the player suddenly doesn’t know what he has to do.
When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.
The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That’s the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.
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.
If you want to be universally loved, forget a career in broadcasting. You can’t compliment a team without necessarily dissing their opponent.
Every experience brings something. From one point, it is good because you know what to expect from this kind of opponent – what is her speed, her striking force.
Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie’s affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.
The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is… Look, we play 162 games. It’s a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.
Protect your hand when you’re confident you’re in the lead. Don’t be greedy and try to milk your opponent for a few more chips when the pot is already large.
I am fully prepared to fight with any opponent in my category from any team.
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.
Many people are blind and only care about the UFC. That’s the wrong way of thinking. The proof is Michael Chandler, coming from Bellator, having such a devastating victory in his UFC debut against a highly ranked opponent.
Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.
Pep is a super coach! He is excellent. He is the best at analysing an opponent and the concept of a game. I don’t know what impact he had on German football, but he left a mark on all of us at Bayern because of how he analysed and educated the players in each position and the way he taught us to play.
I mean, I watched Ken train in the gym. Ken was one of the greatest athletes I’ve ever seen. But when he got into a fight, it would be half of him. He was wrestling with a lot more in there than just beating his opponent.
This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.
I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Hopefully, I’ll get a top-10 or top-five opponent.
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.
In politics, your opponent can be far more important than your vision.
When I face an opponent in the cage, it doesn’t really matter who they are. Whether they’re my buddy, like Scott Jorgensen, or someone I don’t like, like Dominick Cruz, I’m going in there and realizing this guy is trying to hurt me, and that’s what I’m going to do to him. I try to keep it real basic.
All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.
It’s not my goal to be the main scorer. It’s whatever the opponent gives.
My way is to talk to my opponent so he makes it a personal thing. He starts playing me one-on-one, and forgets about his team. Meanwhile, I’m still playing team ball and eating him up. Some guys tried talking back, but you can’t get a talker when a talker’s talking to you.
Once I get an opponent, I’m locked into him.
The more dangerous the opponent, the better fight I’ve fought. It always made me move in ways I’d never moved before.
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.
The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.
There shouldn’t be any true malice towards your opponent.
It’s not 64 squares. It’s a battlefield. There’s no luck, there’s no dice. It’s just you and your opponent.
Anytime I’ve won a fight and asked for an opponent, I’ve usually gotten it, and that’s because it’s all well thought-out.
Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we’re trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.
When I watch Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund side, I see a manager who is determined to play in his opponent’s half, who is committed to attacking football, and, from the way he conducts himself on the touchline, is clearly an interesting, charismatic personality.
Eloise is obsessed with Lady Whistledown, and she is a worthy opponent to try and find her. But, I reckon, more than half of the obsession is the fact that for her, Lady Whistledown is an expression of the potential for freedom that Eloise talks about so avidly.
Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent – they’re both essential parts of communicating with voters.
The mental strategy that goes into planning your next move and what your opponent is going to do are skills you need to be successful playing basketball – and playing ‘StarCraft II.’
Physically, no disrespect to Ronda, but I don’t think she has an advantage over anybody else. She’s not physically stronger than any other opponent I’ve gone against.
Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.
Cruyff was one of the best, he was my hero and my example. He was a star at the same time as George Best, fantastic to watch. I knew him later on, he became my trainer, my adviser, my team-mate, my opponent. It was easier for me to play with him than to speak to him.
As a fighter my goal is not to get hit and frustrate my opponent. Once I get you frustrated then I got you.
I always say the biggest opponent for Manchester United is Manchester United. Every year I play for this club, I will say the same.
We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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.
I will take ownership of the nutmeg. My uncle Okocha has got the skills but the nutmeg, the prince title they call me for that, I will say it is my ownership. It happens instinctively, sometimes the easiest way of getting past my opponent.
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
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.
I don’t feel any remorse or guilt after a fight. I can sympathise with an opponent who is getting a beating, but if it is the choice between him and me, it’s not gonna be me.
I’ve been around in WWE for quite a while now and before that had – even in Florida – I’ve been all around the world and seen every type of style in opponent; the way I was trained and stuff, I got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.
You have to get one above your opponent; being on the front foot allows you to do that. It allows you to dominate them.
I like the octagon because there are no corners; there is nowhere for my opponent to go.
If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.
It doesn’t matter to me who the opponent is, I’ll be ready in all areas.
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
I just want to help, first of all, the Chicago Fire to grow, to change the mentality to a winning team, and to reach the playoffs. That’s my goal. But also to change the game style into a team which is able to control every opponent.
I don’t get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.
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.
This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.
Any time you win you’re going to be happy. But any time it’s a great divisional opponent, when it’s a usual dog fight, to come out on top at their house is a really good feeling.
The more dangerous my opponent is, the better I fight.
The Thursday night game is by far the most difficult game to prepare for. You can’t get into as much depth as you normally would in your game plan because you just don’t have the time. You’ve got to jump right into the next opponent.
Being an opponent playing in Boston over the years, you always see guys in the stands who played for the Celtics. It’s a mystique. It’s cool.
The kind of wrestler that’s going to do well in a combat style event like MMA is one that can explode through – doesn’t need to spend time on the mat – hit his opponent, get him off his feet, and get on top quickly.
I didn’t want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.
I have a really strong opponent in Randy Orton. A former multi-time world champion. He’s held just about every title under the sun. And he’s done it all in a major way. He’s basically wreaked havoc and ran roughshod over the WWE for quite some time. Some people might forget that.
I want to stay active and busy. I don’t just want to fight a no-name opponent. I want a decent name or a big name or a world champion, somebody who is going to challenge me. That’s just it.
I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson? I’m going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.
You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.
Dirrell is a very good opponent. He’s very talented. He’s hard to beat.
I did my part. I signed it for UFC 205 in New York. I signed my part, and Julianna turned it down. She didn’t want to fight that time, but I don’t care about this because I am a fighter, and if she don’t want fight, we was looking for another opponent to make fight.
Staying focused is key. You have to focus on your opponent and make sure you’re training right so your body and mind are ready.
I never really have a game plan other than to finish my opponent as quickly as possible.
I always have a motto: if it’s going in-and-out one night, then the next opponent should be worried.
Changing an opponent shouldn’t be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it’s boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.
I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.
You have to beat your opponent, otherwise you get to walk home with a black eye and wounded pride.
Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself – simultaneously curing you and hurting you.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
There is danger involved in combat sports, but this is the purest form of competition. It’s all about finding the truth. When you put someone in a cage or a ring, you’re going to find out the truth – not only about your opponent but about yourself as well.
I think any player would say that they want their coaches’ respect, they want their teammates’ respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.
What’s important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.
I know that Gamboa is a tough opponent and he’ll lay it all on the line.
No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it’s not much, he’s a dangerous opponent.
This is what respect means: when you support your favourite without badmouthing his opponent. This is respect, and it’s a common thing. It doesn’t matter what country or city you represent.
Samoa Joe is an opponent that I really wanted to face in the ring. There was a time when you never thought that you will able to see Samoa Joe in a WWE setting but that has changed and this can be considered to be one of my fantasy bookings.
Shaking hands is meant as a sign of respect towards your opponent.
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.
What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.
The one who intimidates me is myself. I’m scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent.
You never lose a game if the opponent doesn’t score.
I am one of those players who has many scars up and down my legs from being kicked, but I know I have a job to do, and beating my opponent is my goal.
If I ever spat at an opponent, I’d never be able to show my face to my family ever again.
I’m always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it’s over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.
Pay respect to your opponent.
I am aware of what my opponent Avila brings and the experience he has. He’s tough, throws hard shots and is a good counterpuncher.
Every fight, I train for the opponent very hard and smart.
I never run away from any opponent.
If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.
There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don’t have so much in the way between me and my opponent.
The idea behind reinforcement learning is you don’t necessarily know the actions you might take, so you explore the sequence of actions you should take by taking one that you think is a good idea and then observing how the world reacts. Like in a board game where you can react to how your opponent plays.
You build up the opponent, and you lose confidence.
Che Mills is a great fighter, and a worthy opponent. Just because he hasn’t been seen in front of the camera that many times doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous or a great martial artist.
If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you’ve done a really good job of highlighting what’s wrong with their argument or their position.
Football is actually pretty limited and there are only really four phases: When you have the ball yourself, when the opponent has the ball and when you win the ball or lose the ball. That is football, really, there isn’t more to it.
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.
I would never discredit the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the fight. I’ve always thought it’s a very underhanded thing to do, and it’s a very cowardly thing to do, to come out and say, ‘I’m hurt,’ particularly if you win a fight.
I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.
That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He’s an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.
There’s no use to have 70 percent possession if the opponent is creating more chances than you are.
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent’s hair.
Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can’t take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you’re preparing your material for your opponent but when it affects your heart or when you let it get too personal… you got to have fun with it.
If you are not on the record calling for fair, free and just elections now and in the future, I will come to your district and I will fund a primary opponent against you.
Every time I step on the court, I know I can beat my opponent.
That’s what my specialty’s always been in the wrestling business – going out there and making my opponent look better than he can make himself look.
If you’re not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
I want to fight every opponent and take them out, no matter who it is. I’m here to prove that I’m the best in the division.
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.
By 1996, Clinton was able to run for re-election on the strength of what the ’93 budget had delivered – and to taunt the Republicans (including his opponent, Bob Dole) for having been so afraid of it.
We always try the knockout, but it’s hard to get it if the opponent always runs away.
Wins are big boosts for your confidence, but sometimes you don’t notice little things. When you lose a game, it means that the opponent has had a plan, and it’s worked – now we need to see our capacity for response.
The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.
Gigi is a leader during the big moments in any season, on the pitch and off it. Everyone, whether they’re a team-mate or an opponent, says he makes the difficult things look easy.
My favorite opponent is probably Randy Orton.
What I really lick my chops for is when you get the offensive rebounds at the end of the third quarter, fourth quarter. That really just sucks the life out of the opponent. You can see it in their face, especially when you’re on the road, it just takes the whole energy out of the arena. That’s what I live for.
My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.
I’m not looking to be an opponent and have a promoter match me with their up-and-coming star.
I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He’s very strong. He’s a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it’s really hard to stop him.
I’ve often said it’s not just the level of your opponent: it’s can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?
The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.
Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, have both been criticized during their campaigns for activities related to their foundations.
I’ve become close with Masoud Esmaeilpour and consider him a friend. We send each other messages from time to time on Instagram, checking in to see how the other is doing. Whenever I see him, he’s always a gentleman, giving me tips about my next opponent. There is a tremendous amount of respect in our friendship.
We’ve got to have that mindset that we’ve got to close out games and go up by more than two scores to really shut out the opponent and just take away all their confidence.
We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.
You play against an opponent so much the numbers got to match at some point! I played against the Raiders six years straight pretty much. I played against them more than any team I’ve ever played.
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.
I sat down with my agent and went through my youth-team video footage. I saw that when I started, I’d get on the ball and within two touches would turn straight away and look to attack my opponent, but when I got into the first team, I would go for the safer option.
When I was in Spain, I remember United being eight points ahead of City with only six games but they still lost that title. So in the Premier League, anything can happen. You never know because anything can happen whether you are in front or behind the opponent.
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a ‘national’ posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
After every move, ask yourself what does my opponent want to do to me, and how can I prevent it?
When you’re in there with a top-level opponent, it’s supposed to be a close, action-packed fight.
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
When you’re facing an opponent over a broad front, you don’t aim for the opponent’s strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.
I’m excited to fight in Abu Dhabi and to compete against Roy Nelson because he’s a dangerous opponent and demands a lot of respect and hard training to beat. He’s a knockout artist and really well-rounded, so you need to be well trained to fight someone like him.
I think there are districts – a lot of them – where Donald Trump is deeply unpopular, and tying your opponent to Donald Trump’s unpopularity is a winning strategy. But that’s not true for every district.
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
The only thing that matters to me is to hit my opponent and do whatever it takes to knock him out.
I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it’s for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.
You will not create a lot of chances in every game, but if you stop the opponent getting chances, you will win more.
Jon Fitch is a great opponent, a tough opponent, but St. Pierre brings the whole backing of Canada with him to a fight.
In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent’s goal and have to move into the gaps.
There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
WWE was looking for an opponent for The Undertaker. They needed someone for an upcoming pay-per-view. I was supposed to be just one and done.
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker’s union to endorse me.
If you call your opponent a politician, it’s grounds for libel.
It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then face the criticism from colleagues, voters, the press and defend yourself.
Look, most players can’t stand to be outplayed by an opponent’s bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn’t bother me that much.
One of the golden rules of politics is that if your opponent is attacking you personally then they are rattled.
My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.
Chicanito Hernandez certainly is not an opponent in my category.
I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking – whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.
Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
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.
Your greatest opponent always brings the best out of you.
The arts were like, there’s no opponent. It’s just yourself. I’m not saying they don’t make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that’s outside the work itself.
It doesn’t matter which city, which country my opponent is from – and I am not worried about fighting in Moscow.
To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.
Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they’d prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they’d always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.
We’re always trying to evolve and find more efficient ways, more fluent ways to evaluate our players, evaluate our opponent and evaluate our prospects.
At 135 I always floated too close to my actual weight. I was always trying to keep my weight up to 135. And every time I faced off with an opponent, I could never believe how large they were after they blew up after weigh-ins. I would always just be the same size.
They like to match giants against smaller guys in Japan, so I’d like to fight a heavier opponent. I’d like this type of fight, against a stronger opponent.
Anderson Silva is a tough guy, man. He’s dangerous. He’s got heavy hands, and he’s not afraid to throw them. He’s a dangerous opponent for anyone.
I’m trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.
In chess, we have styles – like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I’m trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
I can’t go on the court crying because then it’s a big advantage for my opponent, so I have to wipe my tears, have a good warm-up, feel the ball and then start grooving in the game.
Mayweather has boxing genius. But it takes one to know one, and he knew right away Pacquiao also has rare boxing IQ – an equalizing gift for setting up and taking down an opponent.
It’s not being disrespectful, but the less you know an opponent, the more work you have to do.
I’ve trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won’t get there to fight my opponent’s game.
They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he’s taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.
A campaign is about defining who you are – your vision and your opponent’s vision.
