#opponents

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

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

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

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#alone #cannot #hold #house #opponents

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#dismay #expressed #healthcare #informed #initiative

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. ↗

— Aeschylus

#friends #into #oil #opponents #pour

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitution #hardly #importance #inferior #jefferson