Top 100 Quotes About Your Opponent
#1. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.
Mark Lawrence
#2. If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Jim Butcher
#3. Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
Grantland Rice
#4. Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.
Lou Krieger
#5. Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own
Tim Krabbe
#6. I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Tony Dungy
#7. 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
#8. Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
Vincent Bugliosi
#9. It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.
Robert Greene
#10. What your opponent wants you to think is useful data in figuring out what they think. So get the early draft, okay?
James S.A. Corey
#11. 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
#12. Look, there's no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There's not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can't use your hands.
Luis Suarez
#13. Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?
Bill Maher
#15. The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
Sun Tzu
#16. 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
#17. One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
Siegbert Tarrasch
#18. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
Sherwood Smith
#20. Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
Edmar Mednis
#21. You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.
Jerry Glanville
#22. The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.
Sun Tzu
#23. Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall
Kyuzo Mifune
#24. True strength isn't in killing - or ignoring - your opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
Ilona Andrews
#25. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel ... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
Martin Van Creveld
#26. When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.
Sun Tzu
#27. Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
Akiba Rubinstein
#28. You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.
Doug Collins
#29. If you decide to challenge your destiny, your opponent would not be some judgemental Lord Almighty who is seeking to punish you; your opponent would only be the limitations of your own mind. This will empower you to fight your fate.
Amish Tripathi
#30. Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
Abd Al-Karim Qasim
#31. President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.
Rob Portman
#32. Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
Sun Tzu
#33. It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.
Johan Cruijff
#34. You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
Mikhail Tal
#35. A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Nigel Short
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do."
"Oh," said Harry.
"You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought.
"Thanks," said Harry.
Robin McKinley
#40. When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Dean Martin
#41. One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
Siegbert Tarrasch
#42. If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.
Barack Obama
#43. If you put forward arguments and justifications when you are annoyed, you give out more information to your opponent
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#44. A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.
Donna Brazile
#45. When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong
Siegbert Tarrasch
#46. There's a quote that says, 'If you know yourself and you know your opponent, you shouldn't fear the results of 100 battles.' Just really being prepared gives you a lot of confidence.
Jon Jones
#47. Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
Vince Lombardi
#48. It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
Bryce Courtenay
#49. In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
Oswald Boelcke
#50. Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.
Peter Singer
#51. That's good. You see, boxing and writing are very similar. You get in the guard position, you decide to throw yourself into battle, you lift your fists, and you hurl yourself at your opponent. A book is more or less the same. A book is a battle.
Joel Dicker
#52. IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.
Morihei Ueshiba
#53. In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
Kwame
#54. Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
Shawnee Smith
#55. To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#56. The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.
Marcelo Garcia
#57. Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi
#58. You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
Sun Tzu
#59. If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
Donna Brazile
#60. I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.
Kerry Healey
#61. How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?
Iris Johansen
#62. The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.
Bryant H. McGill
#64. Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
Bruce Lansky
#65. Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him.
Shigeru Egami
#66. Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.
Greg Jackson
#67. Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Morihei Ueshiba
#68. All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.
Patrick Swayze
#69. You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.
Chuck Knox
#70. If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Oswald Boelcke
#71. In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.
James Burgh
#72. Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it.
Scott James Magner
#73. My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.
Brian Tee
#74. Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn.
Manuel Dos Reis Machado
#75. The moment you stop viewing your opponent as a threat is the moment you leave yourself open to getting beat.
Ronda Rousey
#76. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
Suzy Kassem
#77. A lot of it is mental - you have to not fear your opponent. That's the number one thing, first off. Don't underestimate anybody, but don't fear anybody.
Roxrite
#78. If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.
Neil McDonald
#79. If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force.
Hans Eysenck
#80. Once you dive into the battlefield . . . there is only fighting with all your heart, toe-to-toe with whosoever your opponent might be.
Reki Kawahara
#81. today's heavy emphasis on competition and humiliation of your "opponent" (whether in sports, business, or family), our culture sets men up for anger and unhappiness.
Thomas J. Harbin
#84. Your move should be determined by your strengths, not your opponent's expectations.' Darcy's smile deepened as he warmed to her allusion to fencing. 'Always move to your advantage.
Pamela Aidan
#85. Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian
#87. In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.
Miyamoto Musashi
#88. Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.
Lee Child
#89. If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.
Venus Williams
#90. Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
#91. Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves
David Hackworth
#92. If you fight for a living you can't give a damn about the opponent because they're trying to take food out of your mouth and your kids' mouths. You're in competition with everybody. The trick is, just don't let them know you're competing against them.
Gene LeBell
#93. It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting
John Newcombe
#94. Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.
Israel Albert Horowitz
#95. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#96. The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Jesse Helms
#97. Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
Nina Easton
#98. When you know yourself, you will be clear within and keep yourself well in check. Thus, there will be no reason for anyone to come and be your opponent. Even if your knowledge is insufficient and you make mistakes, it will not be your fault. Just entrust things to Heaven.
Issai Chozanshi
#99. I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.
John Wooden
#100. You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and
your opponent). Distancing is very important.
Masaaki Hatsumi
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