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

- Aeschylus

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

- Boyle Roche

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

- Caroline Wozniacki

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

- Don Yaeger

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

- Ernest Hemingway

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

- Helen Suzman

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

- James Surowiecki

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

- Karl Kraus

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

- Lech Walesa

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

- Magnus Carlsen

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

- Robert Kennedy

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

- Ronaldinho

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

- Sam Snead

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

- Wynton Marsalis