Top 100 Quotes About Your Opponent
#1. Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Mark Twain
#2. Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
Bobby Fischer
#3. When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#4. Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
Vince Lombardi
#5. If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.
Gary T. Smith
#6. Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
Alan Lightman
#7. Victory is sweet, but sweeter when your opponent is butt-ass naked in defeat.
Allison Brennan
#8. A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.
Evander Holyfield
#9. As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.
Richard Phillips
#11. Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
Anatoly Karpov
#12. According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.
Herbert Wind
#13. Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.
Shawnee Smith
#15. When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
Miyamoto Musashi
#16. And never let those who judge you forget that since you were obviously close enough to your opponent to shoot him with your gun, he was, ipso facto, close enough to shoot you with his. If,
Massad Ayoob
#17. Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
Brandon Todd
#18. Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!
Siegbert Tarrasch
#19. When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.
James Lileks
#20. The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.
Jacob Lew
#21. You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.
Marc Lowrance
#22. People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.
Justin Trudeau
#23. Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Ovid
#24. The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From
Adam Johnson
#25. Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.
Miyamoto Musashi
#26. Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.
Yagyu Munenori
#27. 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term ... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
Venus Williams
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
Garry Kasparov
#35. You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.
Carlson Gracie
#36. 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.
#37. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.
Barry Lyga
#38. Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
Peter Ustinov
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.
Philip Sheridan
#45. You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.
Al Gore
#46. 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
#47. Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Sun Tzu
#55. Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Paul Begala
#56. If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off
Nigel Short
#57. 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
#58. Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
Vladimir Kramnik
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
P.G. Wodehouse
#62. If, one day, you find yourself involved in a dirty game, keep in mind that you end up screwed unless you screw your opponent over.
Gina Wings
#63. Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump.
Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
Grace Lichtenstein
#64. guard. It is in this sense that I recommend the guard without a guard. Whatever the situation is, you hold the sword so that you can slash your opponent.
Miyamoto Musashi
#65. I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
Holly McPeak
#66. You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms.
Gichin Funakoshi
#67. Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
Marvin Gaye
#68. You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.
Michelle Wie
#69. If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.
Vitali Klitschko
#70. In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.
Larry Evans
#71. I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.
Venus Williams
#72. Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.
Rae Carson
#74. You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.
James Ponsoldt
#76. If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.
August Bebel
#77. In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
Chris Adami
#78. If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
Henry Rollins
#79. Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.
JohnA Passaro
#80. Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.
Yip Man
#81. If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.
Carlson Gracie
#82. Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.
Sue Barker
#83. After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.
Yannick Noah
#84. Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
John Locke
#85. LI QUAN Overcome your opponent by calculation.
Anonymous
#86. The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
Vladimir Kramnik
#87. I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing-for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible to see your opponent is you ...
Joyce Carol Oates
#88. When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
David Bronstein
#89. Stop moving around.'
'Your opponent"
Daniel panted
"isn't going to stand still and just let you hit him.' He held his boxing mitts out in front of him, welcoming a new attack.
He would if he knew what was good for him.
Bree Despain
#90. There's a new dawn in America! It isn't enough just to disagree with your opponent anymore. True patriots hate their fucking guts!
Tim Dorsey
#91. When you're young your opponent is the future; but when you're not young, your opponent's the past and everything you've done in it and the problem of getting away from it.
Richard Ford
#92. The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. The kind of match where your opponent wanted you to win while you wished for nothing other than to die at his hands.
H.J. Brues
#94. A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.
Andy Murray
#95. Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
Brian Owen
#96. It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.
Paulo Coelho
#97. Calm, Corte. Whatever happens you have to stay calm. When you look into your opponent's face, when you talk to him, it should be like you're discussing cornflakes. Never more emotional than that. . . . Emotion's deadly. What
Jeffery Deaver
#98. Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
Bobby Fischer
#99. It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#100. If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
Mark Russell
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