#opponents

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#both-sides #opponents #politics #understanding #courage

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

#loneliness #opponents #solitary-confinement #tennis #men

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #opponents #trials #faith

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#attack #confront #continually #deeply #draw

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? ↗

— Warren Christopher

#be strong #boycott #election #hamas #incredible

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#am #believe #claim #echoes #i

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#get #i #know #opponents #their

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#believe #determined #end #focus #his

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend. ↗

— George Foreman

#because #better #companion #dog #dogs

Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for. ↗

— Joshua A. Tucker

#cap #careful #opponents #should #trade