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.
