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.
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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.
