Opponents Quotes · Page 5

Never underestimate opponents.

— Bobby Riggs

I never defeated a healthy opponent.

— Savielly Tartakower

I believe my political opponents are not my enemies.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I do quite like verbal sparring with opponents.

— Scott McTominay

Play against the Game, not your opponent.

— Bud Wilkinson

My toughest opponent has always been me.

— Muhammad Ali

I want superfights, to challenge other opponents.

— Jose Aldo

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

— Andre Agassi

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

— Edmar Mednis

We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack,

— Shaka

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

— John Locke

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

— Paulo Coelho

I don't worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.

— Conor McGregor

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were…

— Bruce Pandolfini

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic…

— Pete du Pont

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

— Brian Regan

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

— Rick Pitino

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock…

— Wladimir Klitschko

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that…

— Herbert Croly

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in…

— Adolf Hitler

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more…

— Anonymous

Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of…

— Magnus Carlsen

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's…

— Dee Dee Myers

He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;…

— Emanuel Lasker

There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.…

— Lubomir Kavalek

I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or…

— Kurt Angle

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom…

— Adolf Galland

Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don’t want to have anxiety or be afraid of…

— Nick Diaz

All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most…

— Ramsay MacMullen

I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your…

— Wong Shun Leung

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where…

— Herbert Hoover

In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you…

— Kano Jigoro

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They…

— Novalis

They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him.…

— Nikola Tesla

Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair…

— Michael Josephson

Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents'…

— David Sklansky

The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp…

— Leon Trotsky