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.
