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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. — Oren Arnold

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score. — Darrell Royal

One should respect a defeated opponent! — Alexander Khalifman

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. — Morihei Ueshiba

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent. — Gus Franklin Mutscher

We have all been guilty of bending over backwards to be nice to an unworthy but powerful opponent, — Richard Dawkins

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up. — Curtis Jackson

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

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is. — Wladimir Klitschko

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

Respect every opponent, but fear none. — John Wooden

I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out. — Muhammad Ali

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win. — Sun Tzu

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. — Garry Kasparov

If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it. — Oswald Boelcke

If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks. — Carlson Gracie

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

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent. — Laozi

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math. — Conan O'Brien

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose. — Gary T. Smith

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law. — Demosthenes

opponent was half pillbug, half octopus, and all butt ugly. I closed — Richard Roberts

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. — Andre Agassi

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

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. — Baltasar Gracian

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

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself. — Herbert Wind

Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent. — Rachel Caine

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent. — David Bronstein

Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result. — Georges St-Pierre

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook

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

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright. — Jane Espenson

Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view. — Miyamoto Musashi

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later. — Gena Showalter

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. — Mencius

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. — George Galloway

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you. — Jenna Morasca

The perception of the opponent is always the target. — Grant Hammond

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

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself. — Paulo Coelho

One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,
it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight. — Toba Beta

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger. — Mikhail Tal

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off — Nigel Short

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength. — Kyuzo Mifune

To win, one must be strong when an opponent is weak — Tom Angleberger

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

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one — Bobby Fischer

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

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. — Mahatma Gandhi

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player. — Marc Lowrance

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent. — Paulo Coelho

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. — C.J. Cherryh

We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate. — Joe Lauzon

Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic. — Donna Lynn Hope

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder. — Zinedine Zidane

a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent — Traci Andrighetti

It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. — Akira Toriyama

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game. — Evan Esar

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Do not let your opponent see your spirit — Miyamoto Musashi

...that is what a salesmanship is all about: feign thankfulness when you want to slap at the opponent's face. — Girdhar Joshi

Death is a unique opponent, in that death always wins......There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting. --- Kal (the tattoo artist) — Steven Rowley

The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind. — M.J. Stoddard

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting. — Sun Tzu

Play against the Game, not your opponent. — Bud Wilkinson

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise. — George Orwell

You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent. — Carlson Gracie

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe. — K. Howard Joslin

For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities. — Haruki Murakami

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

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made. — Erin Morgenstern

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

I never defeated a healthy opponent. — Savielly Tartakower

Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either. — Nancy Pelosi

Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength — Megan Whalen Turner

The difficult opponent is the best. — Frederick Lenz

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

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really. — Daniel Negreanu

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless. — Magnus Carlsen

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind. — Mikhail Tal

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. — Samuel Johnson

That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge. — Zhao Yun

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. — Dean Martin

Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane. — Lisa Kleypas

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. — Brian Greene

My opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset. — Megan Whalen Turner

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. — Ovid

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent. — Anatoly Karpov

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces — Akiba Rubinstein

One must choose the apposite moment to crush one's political opponent. Not when he has nothing to say. But when he is attempting to say something. — Timur Vermes

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent. — David Gemmell