Quotes about Opponents

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I?m really kind of oblivious to it. I think the players are, too. I just think these kinds of streaks come and go, and this one has just kind of happened. I?m impressed by our players? mental ability to respect our opponents.

Doug Bruno

We gave everything we had. We learned that our opponents' desire was higher than ours.

Sadaharu Oh

It was another very encouraging game. We played a strong game and look to do the same against some tough opponents Saturday.

Gordon Eakin

In too many games we played five or six innings of great baseball and then just cruised through the ninth. To be the dominant team we want to be we need to keep the pressure on our opponents every inning.

Corey Gleason

We're improving each game on defense, but we have to get even better. We've been playing a lot of close games lately, so it's important to keep our opponents off the scoreboard.

Trevor Gagnier

We never know where we're at week to week. Opponents are literally waiting to see who gets out of their cars at tournaments.

Bruce Cottrell

Before that drive, I told the offensive linemen that this was their drive, ... When you can run the ball consistently, that gives you a chance to run the clock and wear down the opponents.

Kyle Hall

Just outwork your opponents. There is no way to gauge it, but I know I'm giving it the best I can. I can't do any better than that.

Trevor Hall

I really like our team - we are a team that (opponents) really can't figure out. We run the football well; this is an athletic team. We just have to keep working hard in practice.

Chris Atkins

This court has a dark history, it has always been chosen to try political opponents. This is a political verdict.

Amir Salem

I believe elections should be open to all, for better or worse. Possibly an outsider would do a better job. If we had an open system, we might have had opponents run against Nikki and Mark Collins.

Patrick Barnacle

Right now, they are still continuing to figure things out on their own. That is, in my opinion, just doing a better job of getting out of ourselves, and focusing more on our opponents.

Buffy Baker

Her biggest strength is her speed. Her speed helps her get behind a lot of opponents.

Alejandro Lagunas

In a low-turnout special election, it's the only item on the ballot. The opponents - who would be well-funded - would be able to focus on it and have a great opportunity to defeat it. In a general election, there's so many things on the ballot that the average voter is lost.

Brian Sanderoff

If you look at the season stats, we're about even (with opponents) in hits, but in earned runs we've actually allowed fewer. But we are way up in errors.

Mike Gill

I expect to be in there to make big plays all year long. I just hope I have the same opportunities to make plays in bigger spots against better opponents.

Dustin Keller

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Andre Agassi

This is a really good field with a lot of regional schools and a couple big teams. This is a great chance to see some of the MAC schools that we have not seen yet. It is always important to make a good first impression with conference opponents and we have done that so far, going 2-1 against the MAC.

Donnie Darr

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it."

Rob Simmons

Natalie played another good game on defense. It doesn't always show in the stats, but she does a great job on defense; she's very frustrating for opponents.

Chris Webster

It is more a case of us giving the goals away than a product of our opponents play, ... We need to organize better, but let's also not be blind to the fact we are up against good opposition.

Claude Makelele

What has to be hard for opponents is that when we substitute, the player coming in often has a totally different game. They have a lot to focus on because we have so many weapons.

Kristi Boese

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Well I expect we'll have more of interlocking or balanced schedule with all our (Coastal) opponents instead of the unbalanced schedule we've had in the past.

Bill Bestwick

How does severing economic relations bring about the changes opponents say they want? ... It would be unthinkable for the Congress not to approve this historic legislation.

Bill Archer

Looking at our new district, it gives us opponents we're basically familiar with, ... If we get by those teams, however, it will be a new game, so to speak, facing the other district's teams in the region.

Joyce Farrell

They are tough opponents and a very physical side.

Alessandro Nesta

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

Steve Nash

I know I have to be patient, especially when I play such experienced opponents.

Wang Lin

Opponents of changing the succession law...would like to see Masako divorced before it is revised, and a new crown princess found who might bear a male heir.

Miiko Kodama

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Sam Snead

If (opponents) win the argument, America's economic future suffers.

John Peterson

I guarantee you (his opponents) will use it in campaign literature.

Jack Orr

Our guys fought good fights, but it?s their first time at state, so they had a hard time (against their more experienced opponents).

Robert Campos

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Piers Anthony

We have a hard time gettting up against non-conference opponents and playing well. We have to improve on ball control and get more confident in our abilities before Saturday.

Matt Johnson

I don't see any others forthcoming, ... But Arnold has two very formidable opponents.

Art Torres

Any person with a little math sense can make up their mind as to how big this was. You look at the opponents we have left and the schedule we have left and you can figure out that obviously with a minute and a half left, we needed a goal.

Paul Spear

We called on her to corral and control and be physical with the opponent's best player and she did that. She could always be counted on to score a few points when we needed to.

Andy Morris

These are very tough opponents. The stress of tough matches can be a challenge, especially this early in the season. But we're just going to work hard and believe.

Craig Manning

I think our team strength is definitely our defense. They not only can shut down our opponents, but they generate so much offense for us.

Sean Maxwell

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

Our opponents voted for No Child Left Behind.

Rod Paige

Coach called a play called 'Fire'. It was to put the opponents focus on Andre [Collins]. I saw they put a bigger guy on me, so I was thinking to take it to the basket.

Shane James

That was a great win for Max. I liken him to the Energizer bunny because he just keeps going and going after his opponents.

Lee Spitzer

I think it takes pressure off because [opponents] think they can let down their guard.

Lori Walker

Each night the [opponent's] game plan is to stop Taylor. He is shooting well and not forcing the action.

Chris Mayberry

Keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Joe Schmidt

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight D. Morrow

He's fitting in well at the singles position. He makes his opponents work hard, and he never goes down without a fight.

Wesley Smith

If you fight opponents who are weaker than yourself for any length, then you will find yourself disintegrating. It happened to the French in Algeria. It happened to the Americans in Vietnam. It happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan, and now it's happening to us.

Martin Von Creveld

He comes in and he's so confident on his feet. And he's real quick to go after it. He really takes it after his opponents.

Jack Walters

We've both fought similar opponents, and I am confident I'll be crowned the new champion.

Julio Gonzalez

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

Bear Bryant

This is one of our less disciplined nights this season. We've been noted for gaining respect from our opponents, and we don't want that to slip away.

Tom Renney

Our goal is to go out and shut opponents down on the offensive end. Good defense creates offense.

Tristan Welch

It wasn't until I actually shook my opponent's hand that I felt I had won the match.

Ai Sugiyama

Last year, we didn't care if (opponents) knew where the ball was going. But now we don't have a hitter who can go up against a double block and score consistently.

Larry Peterson

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.

Didier Drogba

We have a very strong defense, and do a good job of frustrating opponents.

Jennifer Truman

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Max Planck

I would urge the members of this House to see through these amendments and recognize them for what they are, nothing more than an attempt by the opponents of campaign finance reform to kill this legislation.

Martin Meehan

I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how formidable the challenge would be coming from Bill Bradley or just in general.

Peter Hart

Josh has done an outstanding job all year and when he comes in, he's the one that (opponents) have got to beat and that puts the target on him.

Tony Canacari

There are no easy opponents in the playoffs. The easy opponents get left behind in the regular season. Whoever you draw, everyone is going to bring their game up a level because it's the playoffs.

Ken Gernander

I've been looking at how the three of us have fared against common opponents, and it's too close to call. It could be a dead heat.

Tim Crawford

Any campaign with confidence ignores its opponents. The Hillary attack machine is fighting us tooth and nail every day because they are scared.

Brian Donahue

I was able to hold my serve fairly early and when you can do that you can take advantage of that by being more aggressive against your opponent's serve.

Sam Warburg

As long as they don't direct it directly at their opponent or the opponent's bench, as long as it's a single-person act that's not directly facing the opponent, then we'll deem that it's not taunting, that it's cute and in some cases entertaining. It's done a lot for television. As long as it doesn't create ill will with their opponent.

Mike Pereira

Even [Ohio State], with nine opponents, can be very dangerous.

Janusz Bednarski

We definitely see that it's attainable now, but we focus on opponents as they come. We're winning, but even better, we're getting better every game.

Duke Crews

Last year and the year before that we didn't have anyone who is scoring all of our goals. It's hard for our opponents to key on any one player, because is one guy isn't having a good night, someone else is going to step up for us.

Dennis Derflinger

Guys didn't come here to play the opponents we played in the first 10 games.

Jason Donald

If you have certain rules and restrictions, your opponents will file complaints and you'll have to hire lawyers.

Michael Toner

I said it once and I'll say it again, it's just a good offense. They put a lot of pressure on (the opponents') pitching.

Greg Chandler

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Sun Tzu

It's a fun place to play, but the outcomes usually aren't so fun for opponents.

Leonard Perry

We need to play at our level, not the opponents'.

Megan Baumgardner

At home you wanna come out ready to go. You wanna put your opponents down and we did a good job of that.

Shannan Bergen

Jose always gives us a chance to win every game. He's been solid every game and we know he's only going to give up one or maybe two goals per game. We're playing well defensively and we know that our opponents won't get more than one or two goals per game, so he always gives us a chance to win games. He's been solid since the beginning of the season.

Mike Ribeiro

We cannot afford to underestimate any of our opponents but if we continue to play as we have done so far this summer, then we will qualify.

Javier Zanetti

When you're outspent and you don't have the resources of your opponents, ... you have to run every day like the next day is Election Day.

Jeremy Warren

These are not credible opponents, and the fact that the agenda is marching to their tune hurts.

Kirsten Moore

We'd like to think the caliber of teams we've played is better than what they've played. But I can't say that for sure because I don't know much about their opponents.

John Lowery

Jim gibbons is anxious to debate his opponents and we'll do it as soon as we know who his opponents are but he has a full-time day job he was elected to, and we have to balance that out with campaigning.

Robert Uithoven

That had a lot to do with it. They'll have NFL scouts looking at me more and they play more games on TV and against better opponents.

Kerry Maddox

Tomorrow (against Oak Ridge) will be a test of our character. I thought we lost our composure today and we can't do that against top-level opponents.

Mike Hamburger

A lot of the same teams are going to be here. Obviously it is at home, and it's good that we're running at home because there will be a little added pressure. We'll see how we handle that and we'll get to see our district opponents one more time.

Matt Fryar

He's got a strong leg. Hopefully he can kick some in the end zone and make opponents start at the 20.

Chuck Dickinson

It's got me baffled. We play well against worthy opponents. After 11 games we just don't have any consistency.

Dave Starling

It is a push by bankruptcy opponents to try and delay the implementation, more so than a good-faith effort to help Katrina victims.

Jeff Lungren

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human.

Bob Zuppke

We have a couple of tough opponents coming up. Millis is a good squad and I don't know much about Dover-Sherborn, but we just need to play our game.

Carl Boen

Rendell's not going to just step aside the way Swann's primary opponents did.

Al Neri

The only time we really feel pressure is when we're not scoring more points than our opponents. We're doing our job, getting better, and the points will come.

Dallas Clark

We thought we were qualified for the postseason, just from the schedule and opponents. We just couldn't do anything about their finish in 2005. That shouldn't have been counted against us.

Jack Powell

We'll run through (the opponent's) offense, then we'll play our defense. Just keep doing it and doing it.

James Larson

Too many mistakes. We've been making those all season. We've been able to overcome them against weaker opponents. Not tonight.

Dave Richardson

It was hard not to be excited by his return. Nick brings so much defensive intensity, and he changes the way we play the game. He always guards the opponent's best player, unless it's a (center).

Rob Kornaker