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.
