Opponents Quotes

“Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement....”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.”
― Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns

“There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.”
― K. Howard Joslin, Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.”
― Alain de Botton

“Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.”
― Walter Lippmann

“Our denial of our weakness is as profitable to our opponents as our unawareness of our strength.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.”
― Christina Engela

“I will always be very thankful for my opponents. First, because, they make me famous and second, they also make me the vigilant without any penny. It is an incredible free service.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The opponents create the way for the wisdom of the people, whatever their profession is, from them one experiences the most advantages to correct the mistakes and gain the favour of society, state or the world.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Every game against bigger opponents should be taken seriously. Every game against smaller opponents should be taken seriously; if they want it, they become it.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Opponents don’t have to be enemies.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The opponents create the way for the wisdom of the people, whatever their profession is, from them one experiences the most advantages to correct the mistakes, and gain the favor of society, state, or the world.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“You are living in such a world where you cannot expect that you have not the opponents or enemies. You have to care about that in your life journey.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Watch your opponent as close as you can, and listen to opinions if you're given them, but once you've got your plan in mind, you fix on it and let nothing sway you.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“My opponents are a gratis-mirror where I beautify not only my outlook, also inward and outward.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It is to our advantage to hate our opponent, but to our disadvantage to underestimate our opponent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“The weakest opponent is a mannequin.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“There is no worse opponent than life. What you lose in a fight is nonsense in comparison to what you may lose in life.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Our fight is not with men who have become the devil's pawns but with the devil himself. We must never eliminate the human element in our opponents, for it, we might win over many without a spear but with superior moral values.”
― Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas