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.
