Adversary Behavior Quotes

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

I shake everybody's hand before the game, but Oklahoma City, they don't shake hands. Only some of them, but I don't think they really shake hands before the game.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.