Quotes and Sayings About Opponents
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
-- Aberjhani -
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
-- Aeschylus -
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
-- Akiba Rubinstein -
You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
-- Alexander Kotov -
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Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.
-- Alexey Suetin -
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.
-- Alexis ArguelloSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
-- Alfred Adler -
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
-- Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens -
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Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
-- Amartya Sen -
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
-- Anatoly Karpov -
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.
-- Andre Agassi -
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In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
-- Andy MurraySource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
-- Ann Coulter -
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
-- Arnold Palmer -
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
-- Arnold Palmer -
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
-- Arthur Ashe -
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
-- Ashot NadanianSource : Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.
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Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.
-- Barney Frank -
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.
-- Bertrand Russell -
He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.
-- Bjorn Borg -
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
-- Bobby Fischer -
Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
-- Bobby Fischer -
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
-- Bobby Fischer -
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
-- Bobby Knight -
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Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
-- Brandon Todd -
They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right back after them hard. We are really looking forward to getting after them.
-- Brian Jeroloman