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The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls. — David Gemmell

One should respect a defeated opponent! — Alexander Khalifman

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

My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake. — Peter Leko

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. — Paul Weyrich

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

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. — Michael Parenti

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent. — B.H. Liddell Hart

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

Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood. — Yuvraj Singh

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents. — Ernst Otto Fischer

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation. — Rudolf Virchow

Respect every opponent, but fear none. — John Wooden

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. — Fran Lebowitz

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

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision. — Michael Lewis

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do. — Milton Friedman

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

The fact that abortion is still a taboo subject means that opponents of abortion get to define it however suits them best. — Lindy West

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

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them. — Sun Tzu

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat — Siegbert Tarrasch

The Mandrill with his multicolored wonder ass that he used to bedazzle opponents. — Michael Chabon

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents. — Edwin Percy Whipple

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

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

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. — Boyle Roche

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

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 don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — Bobby Knight

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents. — Hugh McCutcheon

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter. — George Chuvalo

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants. — Jacob Lew

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents. — Leonard Ravenhill

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. — Lennox Lewis

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents. — Don Yaeger

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. — Magnus Carlsen

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. — Warren Buffett

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Jay Haley

Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon. — Hannah Arendt

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents. — Imran Khan

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents. — Leonard Peikoff

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

If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me on the court. — Behdad Sami

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. — Grantland Rice

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions. — Koushun Takami

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

The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me. — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him — Bruce Pandolfini

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods. — Joseph Goebbels

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions — John Wooden

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless. — Chris Bosh

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that, — Gene Sharp

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities. — Adolf Hitler

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents — Charles De Gaulle

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

Never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you — Walter Wink

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

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever. — James Koven

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself — Jan Smuts

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe. — John McCain

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are. — Walter Lippmann

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

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. — Dwight Morrow

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

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents. — Glenn Reynolds

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate. — Russ Feingold

Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. — Lionel Messi

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them — Adlai E. Stevenson II

I know who I want to fight, but I don't pick my opponents; I leave it up to my team. They make those kinds of decisions. My job is to fight and win. — Leo Santa Cruz

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 never defeated a healthy opponent. — Savielly Tartakower

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

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

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows. — Karl Kraus

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal. — Jimmy Hill

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

Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best. — John Kessel

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The difficult opponent is the best. — Frederick Lenz

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. — Aeschylus

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

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

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

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. — Justin Trudeau

Associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. — Jonah Goldberg

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game. — David Beckham

Did he teach you how to bore you opponents to sleep? Because I think I missed that lesson - Allie — Julie Kagawa

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

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

peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to — Hilary Mantel