#opponent

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#any #films #i #opponents #training

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.

#everywhere #go #good #got #i

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. ↗

— Andy Murray

#fear #how #itself #just #knowing

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

#campaigns #circle #combination #compromise #generally

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#end #engaged #life #means #men

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do. ↗

— Rob Portman

#attacking #been #fresh #fresh ideas #ideas

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

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. ↗

— David Horowitz

#among #best #best intentions #chief #deeds

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#democratic #destroy #facing #how #me