Opponent Quotations

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

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.

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.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.

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.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

More people were clapping for the opponent than the home team.

If we get off to a strong start, we can be as good as anybody. Last year we started strong and it went downhill. When everything's going right, we can't be content and let our guard down. We can't let that next opponent punch us first, like what happened last year.

I guess it's a lot like the playing in the NFL this time of year. You want to play your kids so they stay sharp, but you don't want them to get hurt. You don't want to tip your hand to your opponent and you want your subs to get a chance to play.

More than anything, the girl finds a way to win and finds a way to get her opponent uncomfortable; I'm sure she has a way to negate power still. Sometimes, we have a difference in level between top 10 and then 10 through 20, but so far she's been playing excellent.

Now our jitters are out so now it's time to play basketball. Like we said before, we're not here to participate, we're here to win. The whole thing. So right now, the game's over and we're going to enjoy it for tonight, but we have to prepare for our opponent Sunday.

Phew, you have no time to rest. Every opponent makes you run and I hope the temperature will be pretty high and we can play indoors.

Rick asked me if I wanted anything on third down? ... And I said I didn't know what they were doing on third down. That's bad to say, but that's the truth. I've had a chance to look at the opponent this week. It's been kind of tiring but refreshing at the same time. I don't call the defenses, but at least I know what the heck is going on.

Ricky Hatton is not going to fight a real opponent until he drains all the money out fighting secondary guys, in my opinion. That's why we decided not to go after him.

If we play the run effectively we have an excellent chance to win the game, ... There's a demoralizing effect when you can't stop the run. When you know your opponent is going to run and you make your best call to stop it and they still get four or five yards, it has an effect on the defense in terms of physical play and losing those one-on-one battles.

If they have a bad start, its a struggle for the night. I don't care what the level of the opponent we are playing, it doesn't really matter. If we don't come out on fire and energized, its a struggle for us. And that as got to change.

Look, when your opponent is cutting their own throat, you don't get in the way.

We're looking at it like we have to play some team in that final, and for us to focus on our team and our preparation, bringing our best game, no matter who the opponent is.

Mikhail was a very strong opponent today, so I am happy I have won the edge,

(Milan) is a team with a lot of experience, a great system of play and a very strong defense. It will be very interesting to see how we react against an opponent of this nature.

Since I?m the most experienced guy, most of the players look at me. I have to take the time to explain the little aspects, like going out and giving your hardest effort on every play. You have to be tougher than your opponent on every play.

Mentally it was pretty tough, when you know you've got a very patient opponent and you know that it's really hot out there.

She moved the ball around nicely and let her opponent make the mistakes. This was a really good weekend for her. She got a lot of match experience.

She is the best high school player I've seen in a very long time. I like to think we're a decent half-court defensive team. It depends on our opponent ... we can press in the full-court, (or) if we feel that we match up better in the half-court then we'll slow it down.

Luxembourg are a good opponent for our World Cup preparation. We will train hard in Geneva before the game.

So far we've only lost to one Division II opponent (Lake Superior State). We still have some tough matches coming up against teams ranked ahead of us in the region.

She started really slow, and her opponent is a very hard hitter who dominated the 'T' for a while. Once she could maneuver the ball into the back corners, she got better looks and adjusted to the pace. She did quite well from there.

She's a pretty steady player. Her opponent came back, Megan relaxed ... she played her best tennis into the tiebreaker. That says a lot for a girl in her first time as a No. 1 player.

We've never focused on what our opponent does or doesn't do. We're happy about the money we're raising. On top of that we are running an issues-oriented campaign, which you cannot say about our opponent.

To protect our environment, our food supply and our health, I have been an opponent of the Clean Air Mercury Rule since it was first published,

I have never experienced something like this, playing the same opponent twice in a few days. It is not pleasing but we have to play the matches.

I have a very optimistic view of where New Jersey can go, ... My opponent has presented a more negative view than is necessary.

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

He is weighed down by this transformation over the years from a self-described revolutionary and former opponent of the dictatorship of the fifties to ... the darling of the middle class and intellectual elite of Venezuela.

I create tension on the elastic band by moving away from the person who's holding it, and I maintain that tension while jumping up to head the ball. It works my legs and core while also working on balance. You feel it helping on the field when you're going up for a header or when an opponent is pulling or pushing to gain position.

Gina's opponent played really well. It wasn't really a case of Gina playing any worse; it was just that her opponent played so well.

I don't think it was because I was playing against Housman that I had a good game. I think just he was the opponent that day.

I faced an opponent who was just ready for everything I had today. She was maybe lucky in the first set to win it, but she was definitely better over the two sets. She deserved to win, but I made her play.

Glenn found spots to land, which allowed him to push each opponent and jump bigger than anyone else.

If a team believes they are outmatched or that an opponent cannot be stopped in Foxboro or anywhere else, that can adversely affect the outcome for that team. I seriously doubt that any professional team with a 7-0 record, regardless of prior historical outcomes, would perceive itself outmatched by anybody, anywhere. Also, even though there are some players who probably played on all of those teams, I'd guess at least half of the starters don't go back all that far.

For whatever reason our offense hasn't come together yet, but our defense has been outstanding and that's probably the biggest reason we're 4-0. Only one opponent (Martha's Vineyard) has managed to score more than 50 points (51) and counting tonight, we're allowing an average of 42.5 points. When we can do that, I have to like our chances.

I don't think we've been down by that much (17 points) to a Southern Conference opponent this year. For us to be able to pull through it should make us that much stronger.

Chris really took it to his opponent today. It was really good to see, because he was having some confidence issues, and he showed a lot of heart and guts.

To find a Division I-A opponent to play was very difficult because of that. And I was nervous for awhile that we'd have to go the I-AA route.

We've got to understand what it takes to finish games. What we haven't mastered is the ability to squeeze the lead and get the opponent buried. Give credit to Sycamore they gave tremendous effort.

When he's mad, he will bust somebody up. Don't misunderstand Jeff. When he hits, he hits to bash somebody's brains out. We gave him training lessons that he's not supposed to stand over his opponent and cheer when he knocks them out. When their eyes roll back and their body twitches, you're not supposed to pound your chest.

When he started making eye contact, I knew I was in him. My mind-set is to take my opponent's heart and take his soul, and that's what I try to do night in and night out. Get the best of my opponent and make him quit before I do.

What you can learn from this guy is the thing people call intangibles like his leadership style and the way he motivates guys around him. The way he has the ability to intimidate the opponent without saying a word. He's one of a kind.

Her opponent was good at luring Fernanda into making mistakes but wasn't good at winning points outright.

Her opponent was just playing really smart. To (Stephanie's) credit, she is a fighter and is working hard during practice.

We take this election very seriously. We know that Hillary will face both a Republican opponent and a host of negative ads from the party and supposedly independent committees. We want to be sure she has the resources to wage an effective campaign.

He was my toughest opponent of the week and I had to play my best tennis to beat him,

He wants to become the number one opponent of a government that is already weak. This was the only path he could take if he did not want to die politically.

He just never missed anything. It starts to wear on you after awhile, but that's what you have to do in match play wear your opponent down.

He controlled his opponent and came out on top.

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

He has an uncanny sense of knowing where the opponent is trying to put the ball. And he's also got a great first step.

He has earned a reputation as a great wrestler and now people seem to root for his opponent who is almost always the underdog. The gym was quite loud on Friday in Dayton when he failed to pin his opponents, even though both of those wins were very lopsided. I guess it just goes with the territory.

He is a tough opponent that goes back to last year. We were a little down at the end. We had five in the finals and four dropped. This was very important because you need to end like this.

He is an excellent team-mate and an excellent person, ... He had to go through some tough times recently when his father died, but that never stopped him showing concern for all of his team-mates. He has great humility. Generally, at Inter everybody looks after everybody else, but he is especially good this way. And as an opponent - well everybody already knows - he is like a bulldozer, very tough to play against - one of the best strikers in the world.

He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes of punishment and that's when the referee stopped the fight.

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

He was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice

He was up against a bigger and formidable opponent in Jackson and despite these odds, he still won by a fall in 1:10 of the first round.

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

I'm a graduate of Hoover, I've been an assistant or head coach the last nine years and I have never seen a Hoover team hold an opponent to two single-digit quarters ? nine points or less ? and still be down at halftime. That just is unheard of.

Going into this tournament, we have the mentality that we're trying to win the whole entire thing. We take it personal. We need to play well. We're not relaxing at all. We're focused on our first opponent and we're just trying to take care of business and get that first win.

Unless things get way out of hand with all the negative junk and he gets accused of being a terrorist or something, Bill will run a campaign that says here's what I've done and here's what my opponent has done. I couldn't tell you one thing Katherine Harris has done in office or stands for or would do in the Senate.

He's going to have an extremely well-funded opponent in November.

He's going to take on at least nine opponent crowds who are going to brutalize him. He's got to be man enough to stand up to that. He put himself in that situation.

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

He needed to make deals. a deal meant an opponent, an opponent meant confrontation and confrontation was the source of his strength.

He looked better than I thought he would. I couldn't ask for anything more. I told him he did better in his first fight than I did. I didn't know how to finish my opponent and Enrique did.

He doesn't give his opponent anything. He reacts in a thoughtful manner and he always knows his next move. He's very strategic.

We're pretty beat up. We've got some guys playing sore and having to get them ready to play by Thursday, but that's part of the way it is. We haven't played an (easy) opponent like some schools play early in the year.

Joey was doing everything right. He just couldn't get points in the bottom position, and his opponent held that riding-time advantage.

My plan is to run on what I offer to the voters without regard of who my opponent is.

My opponent did a good job in both speed and power. And my service lacked spin, which hardly threatened my rival.

My opponent did a good job in both speed and power, and played down my performance. And my shots lacked spin, and offered no threat.

My opponent has a familiar name, ... (But) if he were named Smith or Jones and said, 'I want to be president of the Teamsters and I've never negotiated a contract' ... he would be laughed out of the hall.

My opponent has only said that he would ask serious questions of the president. The time for questioning is over.

My opponent is a lifetime employee of the government.

My opponent is the king of smoke and mirrors. His budget's been smoke and mirrors. His crime statistics have been smoke and mirrors.

My opponent was the present Attorney General of the State, W. F. Fitzgerald, a very capable man, and probably the best man on the Republican ticket.

My opponent was tough, but I played aggressively and I played with more composure than in the first round,

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

I was especially pleased with Morris. She played really well, moved her opponent around the court and was patient in the rallies.

Lincoln had already played two games before they played us, and we were chomping at the bit excited to play our first game. We had guys 30 who are returning, and they were slobbering at the mouth. We wanted to play an opponent - we didn't care who it was. We jumped on them early, and they were already down. We kept them down, basically.

Martina is a great champion. But when you're out there, you just focus about what you have to do and not think about who you're playing. When you're younger, you're more aware of who your opponent is. But as you get more experience and you play the best players, you don't think about that. You just focus on the ball and on the game.

Some games are like that. You can even out-shoot your opponent and lose. I thought in the second half, we dominated. We had one lapse where we let them get the ball in. We definitely put pressure on them, but we just didn't make the connections we had to make.

That doesn't mean much now. We've got a tough opponent in the playoffs and we want to go out there and concentrate on beating those guys and perform as well as we can. We have to keep our focus and play our game. They're going to make it tough, so we're going to have to pay a bit of price in front of the net ù get into the corners and work hard.

is among America's most prolific and prominent public intellectuals. ... She has worked extensively on education, on development in the Third World, on law, on homosexuality, and above all on the injustices of gender ... she is a dedicated opponent of all that is glitzy and trashy in modern culture.

Sport fencing is very different from what you see in movies. In fencing, the moves are small and tricky. In the movies, the moves are big and flashy. They're meant to show well before the camera. Actors are trying to look good and not hit somebody. Fencers are trying to hide what we're doing and hit somebody. We try to look good at what we do, but we don't want to telegraph any big, flashy moves because that makes it easier for your opponent to hit you. There has to be a certain subtlety to it.

Stacey Nelson has definitely stepped up, and she's proven a lot in these past couple games, especially with her big win against Michigan. Stacey Stevens has come out and thrown the ball a lot better and will make a big impression for our team and against our opponent in the SEC.