Opponents Quotes

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

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

For multiple opponents, I have multiple brothers.

In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

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

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

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

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.)

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

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

I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

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

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human.

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

The toughest opponents to defend are Iverson, Marbury and Payton. They are all very talented and can shoot at anytime from anywhere.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.