Opponents Quotes - Page 17

The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.

Marcelo Garcia

Mistake, Making Mistakes, Jiu Jitsu

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Why do I beat a lot of people? Because I love it so much, that’s why. Everything about Jiu Jitsu, I love it – the school, the mat, the ring. I always believe that. Maybe I am not better than my opponent, but I know for sure I love my training more.

Marcelo Garcia

Believe, School, People

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I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

Marcelo Garcia

Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

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I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state of Nebraska for that matter? And don't you think a wrestling ring is a little old school, Lilian? Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks? Hungry sharks! And the only way to beat your opponent is to stuff him down a shark's throat, and pin the shark. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

Kurt Angle

Real, School, Wrestling

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

Mary Pierce

Goes On, Littles, Information

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Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

Roger Bannister

Running, Fighting, Race

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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

A. A. Milne

Winning, Men, Games

1919 Not That It Matters.

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His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

Eduardo Galeano

Soccer, Football, Player

Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.194, Verso

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I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

Wladimir Klitschko

Trying, Faces, Plans

"'We are brothers in arms but not clones,' says Wladimir Klitschko". Interview with Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

Mean, Fighting, Winning

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I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

Wladimir Klitschko

Names, Focus, Doe

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School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

Walter E. Williams

Teacher, Children, School

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Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time.

Chris Jericho

Congratulations, Men, Rocks

Twitter post from Feb 14, 2011

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It's not what I want, Trish. It's what you want. It's what you need. And even though we're opponents tonight in the 6 person, tag team table match, I see how you look at me. You could cut the sexual tension between is with a knife. So I just want to let you know no matter the outcome, I'm always available to give to a healthy dose of Vitamin C.

Chris Jericho

Team, Cutting, Wwe

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I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

Mike Tyson

Boxing, Guy, Brain

Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

James Lileks

Hate, Mustache, Looks

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...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Jonah Goldberg

Rhetorical Strategies, Politics, Strategy

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When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.

Don Feder

Winning, Evil, Trying

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It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Glenn Reynolds

Political, Feelings, Politics

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Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

Jonah Goldberg

Crazy, Party, Needs

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Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Jonathan Haidt

Evil, Politics, Sides

Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't … it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense.

Nick Diaz

Hurt, Eye, Fighting

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The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally get larger contributions than their challengers. The opponents at least get some money, but they do not have access to the perquisites of the incumbent.

Gordon Tullock

Campaigns, May, Privilege

"Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice".

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Men, Compassion

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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tendencies, Caricatures

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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