Opponents Quotes

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.

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

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

In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

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

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

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

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

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

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

In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

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

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

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

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Do not let your opponent see your spirit

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

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

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

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

After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.

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

I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect.

Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn.

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

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.

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

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.