Opponents Quotes - Page 39

• Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

  Vince Lombardi

  Basketball, Coaching, Again And Again

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• In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Games, Errors

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• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Movement

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• I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Believe, Men

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• Play against the Game, not your opponent.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

  Kim Clijsters

  Hate, Tennis, Beats

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• When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.

  Bob Pettit

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Football, Stars

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• The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.

  Ken Dryden

  Hurt, Stress, Mean

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• O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Army, Power

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.335, NYU Press

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• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  Kano Jigoro

  Fundamentals, May, Matter

  "Judo: The Japanese Art of Self Defense". "A Complete Guide to Judo: Its Story and Practice" by Robert W. Smith, judoinfo.com. 1958.

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• In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Winning, Order, Victory

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• The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Mind, Use, Littles

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• According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

  Herbert Wind

  Golf, Edinburgh, Caddies

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• What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, What Is Love

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.184, The Floating Press

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• You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Light, Anxiety

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Made

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• ...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Keys, Games

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• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Hands

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• If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Mean, Hands

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• The toughest opponents to defend are Iverson, Marbury and Payton. They are all very talented and can shoot at anytime from anywhere.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball

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