Opponent Quotes
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Opponent Quotes & Sayings
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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
Respect every opponent, but fear none.
— John Wooden
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
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
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
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
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
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
— George Galloway
The perception of the opponent is always the target.
— Grant Hammond
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
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
We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.
— Joe Lauzon
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
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
The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind.
— M.J. Stoddard
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 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
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
— Samuel Johnson
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
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.
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
