Opponents Quotes · Page 37

How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered!…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him…

— Bjorn Borg

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Tank Abbott

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

— Paulo Coelho

If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm,…

— Alexander Kotov

Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a…

— Roger Bannister

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

— Don Yaeger

There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own…

— Barbara Boxer

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

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect,…

— Georges St-Pierre

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

— Patricia Briggs

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

— Ambrose Bierce

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on…

— Adolf Hitler

But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract…

— Jonah Goldberg

I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the…

— Rafael Cavalcante

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient…

— Ronda Rousey

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys…

— Harry Shearer

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which…

— George Steiner

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.

— Chris Eubank, Jr

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

— Ronald H. Nash

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on…

— Helio Gracie

Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do…

— Dennis Hastert

Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?"…

— Cinda Williams Chima

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

— Mahatma Gandhi