Top 100 Quotes About Opponents
#1. Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
Grantland Rice
#2. Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Sam Snead
#3. Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.
Mason Cooley
#5. It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
Tom DeLay
#6. Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.
Lou Krieger
#7. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Oliver Goldsmith
#8. Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own
Tim Krabbe
#9. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
Dale Spender
#10. Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It's the only way to break down your opponents.
Tony Parker
#11. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Arnold Palmer
#12. Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.
Edward Bernays
#13. To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
Jean Francois Revel
#14. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Napoleon Hill
#15. Your opponents do not want you to persevere;
they are afraid you will succeed.
Your allies want you to persevere;
they will benefit from your success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!
Alexander Kotov
#17. Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
Vincent Bugliosi
#18. I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#19. Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any "greatest generation.".
David Brin
#20. The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.
Paul Weyrich
#21. You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.
Bruce Lee
#22. At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
Sue Wicks
#24. What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
Jean Rostand
#25. Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.
John Kessel
#26. I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.
Rau'Shee Warren
#27. In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.
Gichin Funakoshi
#28. I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
Lech Walesa
#29. When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
Carl Hiaasen
#31. Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.
Monica Crowley
#32. In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
Robert Dallek
#34. Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.
Mark Taimanov
#35. Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Belgium's declared intention to fight was, the Germans believed, no more than the "rage of dreaming sheep" - in the words a Prussian statesman once applied to his domestic opponents.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#37. A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Samuel Johnson
#39. One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
Siegbert Tarrasch
#40. It's a story about what's worth fighting for, and how sometimes, even when we fight against very powerful opponents, we can win.
Elizabeth Warren
#41. Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
Edmar Mednis
#42. The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.
Sun Tzu
#43. One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,
it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.
Toba Beta
#44. We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.
Nikolai Bukharin
#45. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. 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
#47. Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 to govern together, both of us understood that we weren't going to change our views but that we had to work with one another if we were to end the conflict and move forward.
Martin McGuinness
#48. Bombs were generally the tools of cowards or the desperate, those who either had no stomach for looking their opponents in the eyes or those who were so outclassed that honor had become a dangerous and entirely unaffordable affectation.
Evan Currie
#49. Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall
Kyuzo Mifune
#50. Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
Barbara Tuchman
#51. Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
Amartya Sen
#52. When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#53. When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.
Sun Tzu
#54. Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Tacitus
#55. Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
Akiba Rubinstein
#56. You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
Wynton Marsalis
#57. In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.
Keeth Smart
#58. Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves
Rorion Gracie
#59. I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.
Uta Pippig
#61. The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense.
Kenwa Mabuni
#62. The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.
Goran Ivanisevic
#64. We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.
Karen Armstrong
#65. My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake.
Peter Leko
#66. You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.
Bruce Lee
#67. So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.
Sun Tzu
#68. Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.
Phil Jackson
#69. There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#70. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul Ryan
#71. I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.
George Chuvalo
#72. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#73. Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from him when he's talking about his opponents, it's really striking.
Paul Gigot
#74. Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.
Elliott Abrams
#75. punishment was withholding food. Starvation was the way the regime preferred to eliminate its opponents. It
Barbara Demick
#76. For multiple opponents, I have multiple brothers.
Renzo Gracie
#77. I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.
Ronald Reagan
#78. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'
Ramsay MacMullen
#79. Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.
Lionel Messi
#80. What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with at least as much passion as the liberals.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#81. I incorporate different styles that work for me. I could easily change my style depends on my opponent.
Tomoki Kameda
#82. I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we face in life are fear, anger, confusion, doubt and despair. If we overcome those enemies who attack from within , we can attain a sure victory over any attack from without.
Chris Bradford
#83. The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
Leonard Ravenhill
#84. There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.
Tony Dungy
#85. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
Bobby Fischer
#86. Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.
Malcolm Turnbull
#87. You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
Jostein Gaarder
#88. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.
Richard Engel
#89. Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.
Fumiko Enchi
#90. When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
Paul Ryan
#91. Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who ... even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.
Susan Jacoby
#92. Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.
George Steiner
#93. So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
Dan Millman
#94. If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu ...
Rickson Gracie
#95. Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'
George Steiner
#96. The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
Warren Buffett
#97. When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Dean Martin
#98. One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
Siegbert Tarrasch
#99. 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 F. Kennedy
#100. If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.
Barack Obama
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