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When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
Dick Fosbury
You
Yourself
Other
Athlete
Physical
Mental
Percent
Reach
Against
Level
Competing
Elite
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
Dick Morris
Gay
Marriage
Words
Unions
Gay Marriage
Civil
About
Split
American
Polls
Break
Against
Show
Presented
One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.
Didi Conn
Day
Mother
Expectation
Secret
Our
Secret Weapon
One Day
Weapon
Results
Disabled
Another
Without
Said
Child
Disease
Any
Against
Speaking
I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.
Diego Costa
Game
Every
Other
Rivals
Pick
Tournaments
Score
Want
Against
Teams
Play
I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.
Diego Costa
Great
Problem
Always
Any
Against
Played
Defenders
We're a small country, and if you look at it that way, then we're at a disadvantage, though I know that most of the players who know or have come up against Uruguayans prefer to avoid us.
Diego Forlan
You
Country
Way
Though
Small
Small Country
Disadvantage
Come
Know
Look
Most
Up
Against
Prefer
Then
Us
Avoid
Who
Players
Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.
Diego Forlan
Become
Kick
Way
Kid
One-Way
Both
Tennis
Feet
Hours
Ball
Wall
Against
Even
Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.
Diego Forlan
John
Rio
Finest
Terry
Were
Ferdinand
Against
English
Among
Played
Two
Defenders
Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Good
News
Protection
Christ
Good News
Made
Devil
Atonement
Perfect
Through
Gospel
Influence
Against
Mankind
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Generally, we have competed with ourselves... because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don't want the process of growth to be stressful.
Dilip Shanghvi
Stress
Somebody
Ourselves
Generally
Feel
Because
Causes
Want
Process
Against
Growth
Compete
Stressful
People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and I'd put myself up against anybody.
Dion DiMucci
Myself
People
Guitar
Magazine
Records
Never
Had
Put
Know
Been
Up
Hit
Hit Records
Anybody
Against
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Played
You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.
Diplo
Music
You
People
Judge
First
Someone
Main
Never
Main Reason
Like
Audience
Always
Been
Foremost
Any
Against
Prejudice
Reason
England
I didn't have anything against Manchester United or any other team, and my dream was always to play in the Premier League one day, but my heart told me the best thing would be to stay at Lille.
Divock Origi
Best
Day
Me
Heart
Other
One Day
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Stay
League
Always
Any
Manchester
Manchester United
Anything
Against
Premier
Premier League
Team
United
Play
Thing
What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.
Dmitri Alperovitch
You
Rarely
Costly
Only
Risky
Very
Targets
Want
Against
Really
Used
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
Dmitry Medvedev
Life
Rights
Political
Freedoms
Prosperous
Off
Political Rights
Stability
Cannot
Against
Set
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
Dominic Cooper
Education
Health
Good
Family
You
People
Brilliant
Country
Difficult
Incredible
Systems
Would
Would-Be
Mafia
Had
Instantly
Saddam
Said
Were
Iraq
Very
Essentially
Anything
Regime
Against
Infrastructure
Created
Lived
Lives
Actually
For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to campaign against decisions previously taken by majorities and to seek to change them.
Dominic Grieve
Democracy
Change
Seek
Properly
Absolute
Taken
Individuals
Accepting
Campaign
Against
Decisions
Them
Requires
Groups
Function
Right
As has been the case throughout the history of terrorism, government anxiety centres on what to do about those against whom there may be intelligence but no usable evidence.
Dominic Grieve
Government
Terrorism
History
Intelligence
Anxiety
Evidence
Those
Has-Been
About
Case
Throughout
Been
May
The History Of
Against
Usable
Whom
When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.
Dominique Moceanu
You
Age
Battle
World
Parents
Gone
Seventeen
Easy
Through
Come
Court
Surprises
Won
Very
Gold
Against
Public
Your
Traveled
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
Dominique Wilkins
Great
You
Every
Defines
Out
Great Player
Like
Said
Same
Same Level
Against
Who
Play
Level
Compete
Player
Every Night
Night
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.
Don Lemon
Society
East
Something
More
Atrocity
Global
Becoming
Affects
Person
Committed
Any
Africa
Middle
Middle East
Happens
Against
Asia
Us
If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.
Don Nickles
Government
You
People
Protection
Believe
Other
Type
Our
Our People
System
Weapon
Puts
Idea
Missile
Acceptable
Priority
Ballistic
Any
Being
Against
Then
Us
Really
Jeopardy
Number
I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
Don Shula
Time
Me
Son
Father
First
Half
Minutes
Be The First
Dave
Beat
He
Couple
First Time
Proud
His
Years
Very
Against
Coached
Ever
Second
Last
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
Don Shula
Game
Bears
Football
He
Football Game
Won
Against
Mike
Coached
Assistant
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.
Don Yaeger
Winter
Sports
World
Win
Men
Single
Year
Gave
Torch
Would
Magazines
Throughout
Major
Opening
Powers
Offered
American
Hockey
Lake
Predictions
Against
Newspapers
Team
Who
Medals
Publication
Olympic
Chance
Olympics
I signed a contract to fight at UFC 187, so I'm going to fight at UFC 187, whoever it is against. It's the same thing.
Donald Cerrone
Fight
Same Thing
Signed
Contract
Same
Going
Against
Whoever
Thing
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