Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Curtis Jackson

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

I think it's very unfortunate for him and the state. Obviously, I'm his opponent and I don't want to see him do well.

He would have been running them if he had an opponent or not.

If that will make our opponent not take our abilities seriously, then let us be the Cinderella.

Fernando Ferrer

we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.

Andrew Young

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Kirk Ferentz

When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit.

Brent Sutter

We've got to get better and we will get better. That being said, our opponent was a tough opponent. At the end of a day, it's a win.

Martin Brodeur

The opponent was always so petrified of him.

My toughest opponent is going to be in our wrestling room.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Rodney Harrison

We have a tough opponent this week. We have to get better.

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.

Jeff Tedford

This will step it up a notch, ... It's going to be one of those games, like I told the team ... this is why you play. A Top 25 opponent on the road, in the Rose Bowl, it doesn't get much better.

We like to pressure our opponents and play an up-tempo game. We're young, and we're still developing.

Garry Kasparov

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

Mahatma Gandhi

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

Otto Rehhagel

Any opponent would be welcome since we have nothing to lose,

Tommy Bowden

They've been an especially tough opponent for us offensively,

Georges St-Pierre

Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.