Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto Rehhagel

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

Kobe Bryant

For me, it was about the W, and that's why I turned it on. Then I just tried to ride the wave and demoralize our opponent - and it turned into something special.

Leonard Peikoff

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

Suzanne Collins

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

Tommy Douglas

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

Sun Tzu

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

Jostein Gaarder

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

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.

Martin Brodeur

The opponent was always so petrified of him.

I've worn down opponents before and today that's what he did to me.

Mary Pierce

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

Paulo Coelho

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

Vince Lombardi

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

Samuel Johnson

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Vince Carter

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

Georges St-Pierre

Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.

Hale Irwin

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

He's a quality opponent and we've spoken to his people, but nothing is signed yet and there's nothing done yet.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Tatyana Lebedeva

Even without Smith, I can't relax. My other opponents are strong and could spring a surprise. So I will not relax, I will be fighting.

Steve Hansen

It's got nothing to do with who the opponent is,

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

George H. W. Bush

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Manfred von Richthofen

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Garry Kasparov

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

Jimmy Fallon

Christine O'Donnell released a commercial in which she says, 'I'm not a witch.' That's pretty good, though not as effective as her opponent's slogan, 'I'm not Christine O'Donnell.'

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Karl Kraus

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.