Quotes About Sports Opponents

#1. Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

John Kessel

#2. In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.

Keeth Smart

#3. You must use that hope an' faith to help you get well.

Zane Grey

#4. Cool." I was trying to act like I didn't care, but my inner kid was running around snorting pixie sticks.

Amber L. Johnson

#5. There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

Sophocles

#6. Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great ... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?

Mike Dodd

#7. Our life is short, and our days run, As fast away as does the sun

Robert Herrick

#8. Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this ... skirmish.

Brian Regan

#9. You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Bobby Knight

#10. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.

Don Maynard

#11. your son has paid the soldier's price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he proved that he was a man by fighting like one, he died"
Macbeth
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

#12. I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."
"I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring."
"I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Jim Butcher

#13. I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

Brandon Todd

#15. The words 'Very finely played, sir, I believe' were formed in his gullet if not in his mouth when he caught the cold and indeed inimical look and heard the whisper, 'If you really must beat the measure, sir, let me entreat you to do so in time, and not half a beat ahead.

Patrick O'Brian

#16. Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Mira Sorvino

#17. Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Ludwig Quidde

#18. It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths ... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

Arthur Rothstein

#19. You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Bobby Knight

#20. Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

Brad Alan Lewis

#21. In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

Herbert Wind

#22. There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Douglas William Jerrold

#23. C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

Patti Smith

#24. Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.

Andre Bramble

#25. The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Gordon Bethune