Top 100 Opponent Quotes
#1. Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.
Tyson Fury
#2. To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.
Haruki Murakami
#4. Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.
Michael Baumgartner
#5. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu
#7. Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Marc Morial
#8. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.
Takenaka Shigekata
#9. I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.
Wladimir Klitschko
#10. Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.
Pete Sampras
#11. Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. Without a worthy opponent a man or group cannot grow stronger.
Robert Greene
#13. Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent
Nelson Mandela
#14. The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
Garry Kasparov
#15. My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
Renzo Gracie
#16. Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of 'all power to the soviets' were delegated by a soviet opponent to defend the Soviet currently arguing furiously against taking the power they wanted it to take. Those
China Mieville
#17. Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.
Alexey Suetin
#18. O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
Walt Whitman
#19. History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness. David understood that, as he sized up his opponent long ago in the Valley of Elah. And in a different time and in a very different age,
Malcolm Gladwell
#20. If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#21. American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet
#22. When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.
Bruce Lee
#23. I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.
Jeff Sessions
#24. You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.
Carlson Gracie
#25. On the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.
Neil McDonald
#26. The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.
Bernard Hopkins
#27. I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.
Chris Eubank Jr.
#28. Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
Brian Greene
#29. The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
H.L. Mencken
#30. The match was a short one. The mountain brute received several gashes across his flesh that bled profusely, but the fight came to an abrupt halt when he cleaved the whip-wielding arm from his opponent's body. The crowd cheered, some cringed, and others bathed the stands in their lunch.
Kel Kade
#31. I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.
Justin Trudeau
#32. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.
Barry Lyga
#33. When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba
#34. Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
Peter Ustinov
#35. I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.
Jean Giraudoux
#36. Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.
Fedor Emelianenko
#37. Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Harsha Bhogle
#38. Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
#39. If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw
Jeremy Silman
#40. I'm always telling Don King's people when there's a top-10 heavyweight they've got that needs an opponent, I'm ready.
Mark De Mori
#41. If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it.
Cus D'Amato
#42. Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
Bradley A. Smith
#43. The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
Barack Obama
#45. Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
Alexander Alekhine
#46. Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?
Margaret Mahy
#47. I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I have to do to win is honor the path I have chosen and honor yours, too.
James A. Owen
#48. Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.
Philip Sheridan
#49. The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.
Paulo Coelho
#50. To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.
Albert Einstein
#51. You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.
Al Gore
#52. If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off
Nigel Short
#53. When you play a tiebreaker, you dont have time to think of anything, ... You have to go for your shots because one shot can make such a difference. Thats the kind of shot that can break an opponent.
Elena Dementieva
#54. To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
#55. Love was like a loaded gun. You slid you bullet inside the cold metal chamber as a safeguard for the inevitable day that everything went to shit. At the first sign of trouble, you blew your opponent to pieces, long before their finger found the trigger.
Christina Lee
#56. Admire the world for never ending on you
as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
Annie Dillard
#57. Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.
David Berg
#58. Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
Jeb Bush
#59. Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Mark Twain
#60. Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#61. We have to deal with a lot of things. One of them is we have to deal with fake conservatives that are bought-and-paid for by the Karl Rove establishment. Unfortunately, some in my area have recruited a primary opponent against me.
Matt Shea
#62. Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.
Thomas Kuhn
#63. What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
P.G. Wodehouse
#64. I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
Mary Pierce
#65. I doubt you even know what duty is," she retorted. A risky response - such flippancy of the tongue - and it might provoke them, but showing fear would invite a response. Half of combat is causing your opponent to think you are stronger than you are, Gansukh had told her. Scarface
Neal Stephenson
#66. The mere fact that a boxer covers his face never means that he is much afraid of his opponent. A good punch will give a better explanation for his action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
Harold Ford Jr.
#68. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.
Stefan Molyneux
#69. Scourge himself was killed by Firestar, leader of ThunderClan and Tigerstar's chief opponent.
Erin Hunter
#70. Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz
#71. There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.
John Ridley
#72. Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism
Harold Bloom
#73. Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
Vladimir Kramnik
#74. I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer.
Sergio Aguero
#76. If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
Georges St-Pierre
#77. The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.
Robert B. Cialdini
#78. My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
John Wooden
#79. Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.
Imelda Marcos
#80. Your opponent will often be blind to your design, being consumed with his own. Do not subconsciously seek accolades of your ingenuity and thus call attention - be sated by your own approval. Be confident you will win.
Shannon Kirk
#81. An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn't likely to engage with you at all.
Steven D. Levitt
#82. Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis
#83. The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer
#84. My finest opponent, the Mantle accepts all who live fiercely, who defend their young, who build and struggle and grow, and even those who dominate - as humans have dominated, cruelly and without wisdom.
Greg Bear
#85. Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
Jon Bernthal
#86. A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your opponent's nose - even in the matter of political rhetoric.
Mike Pence
#87. In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
Harry Truman
#88. I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.
Norman Lock
#89. If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.
Bruce Lee
#90. Large amount of resources and more individuals in your organization do not necessarily equate to victory over your opponent if you have lost the advantage of formlessness.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#91. Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
Linus Pauling
#92. Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Paul Begala
#93. Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Sun Tzu
#94. It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It
Muhammad Ali
#95. I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.
Mikhail Tal
#96. As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
Martin McGuinness
#97. Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.
Dan Millman
#98. To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.
Robert Reed
#99. If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.
Alexander Kotov
#100. Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake.
Viswanathan Anand
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