#adversary

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#cinema #football #you #yourself

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. ↗

— George Michael

#degree #drove #fact #father #fought

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#after #changed #every #forward #gym

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#aggression #being #defeat #everything #fiery

You have to work more than your adversary. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#more #than #work #you #your

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#against #any #citizens #conspiracy #each

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#begins #centuries #come #glorified #know

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#binding #hate #our #tightly #too

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#adversary #against #deterrent #meant #nuclear