I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.
I guess there hasn't been a tough enough opponent for me to fight. But fighting a southpaw is OK. It's something different and maybe I need something different. I look at a right-handed fighter then I look at a left-handed fighter, and it's even better.
If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.
You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.
Work harder than your opponent.
It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.
Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.
I definitely miss the rush from wiping out an opponent.
Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.