If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.
Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.
The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.
The difficult opponent is the best.
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.
A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent
If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel. . . if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.