Opponents Quotes - Page 8

• Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

  Benjamin Carson

  Home, Names, People

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• There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Believe, Blessed

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• I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Practice, Games

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• Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

  Paul Feig

  Pain, Fall, Agony

  "Crybabies for Bolton" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2005.

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• Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

  Sandra Fluke

  Meaningful, Voice, Silence

  "Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women" by Sandra Fluke, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Running, Bobby Kennedy, Establishment

  "A Scrubbed Toe in the Race" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2010.

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• Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

  William Hague

  World, Conflict, Timetables

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• A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

  Evander Holyfield

  Art, Hurt, Believe

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

  Hale Irwin

  Positive Attitude, Talent, Underestimate

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Training, Watches, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Payday, Right Time, Venues

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

  Jon Meacham

  Wise, Real, Political

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• Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Powerful, Successful, Opposites

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• Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.

  Rafael Nadal

  Confused, Thinking, Games

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• Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Writing, Oil

  Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  Rick Perry

  Ducks, Issues, Trying

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• Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

  Dennis Prager

  Punishment, Acting, Facts

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• I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

  Marco Rubio

  Reform, Racist, Used

  "Here's the truth about my plan for immigration reform" by Marco Rubio, www.foxnews.com. April 23, 2013.

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• When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

  Paul Ryan

  Emotional, Play, Ideas

  "Paul Ryan Raises Money Off Of President Barack Obama’s Budget Speech" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

  Paul Ryan

  Records, Silent, Desperate

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Offering, Facts

  "Stand Up For Your Budget, Paul Ryan". www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn't matter if it's a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it's going through consistently, it's demoralizing for any opponent.

  Dwyane Wade

  Men, Balls, Matter

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• 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

  Venus Williams

  Nice, Tennis, Pieces

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