Opposing Team Quotes

Marshawn, he's hard to tackle. I only played against him a couple of times. We did OK against him in Chicago when I was there.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

I'm a Saints guy, and I'm on the defensive side and I'm hearing the hell that the Saints fans are giving the opposing offenses and it's pretty tough. It's a huge challenge to manage the defense with that noise, but I'd rather them be loud and pumped up and going than quiet, because if they're quiet it means we're getting beat.

That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.

At this point, I'm just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.

I'm all for a great fan environment to cheer us if we're home and boo us if we're the opposing team. But some fans are over the line with the stuff they say, the stuff they do.

Honestly, when I'm out there, I really don't even think about them as guys with names. I look at them as numbers.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

I've played against Messi a lot of times, and I've already conceded goals through my legs with him.

It is always tough to play against Norwich.

I didn't think I was going to be doubled my first NBA game. I knew it would happen eventually, but I got off to a hot start, so as a result, I got double-teamed.

Normally when we play against Brazil, we will just try to stop them from winning.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

I got the call, 'Celtic want you.' And I knew Celtic were a top, top team. I thought it would be much easier than it was. It was quicker than I thought. When you got the ball, there was always a defender at you.

Defenses usually are trying to take away the guys who are getting a lot of catches earlier in the season.

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

I know teams are gameplanning against me, trying to not let me shoot pull-ups, basically trying to take me out of the game as much as they can.

I think it's something each team has to decide on, but I think the guard of honour is supposed to be a way of paying tribute to the opposing players.

I'm used to going out amongst giants and being the smallest linebacker.

It's never easy to play against City.