Opponents Quotes

832 Opponents quotes by 548 unique authors

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… — Jeremy Silman
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 — Mikhail Tal
When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens,… — Alexander Alekhine
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player — Max Euwe
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat — Siegbert Tarrasch
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Unknown Author
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch
Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. — Lionel Messi
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should… — Mahatma Gandhi
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. — Mahatma Gandhi
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for… — Magnus Carlsen
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the… — Garry Kasparov
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a… — Garry Kasparov
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths… — Alexander Alekhine
I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to… — Adam Goucher
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose… — Unknown Author
Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus… — Jan Schakowsky
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. — Ludwig von Mises
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.… — Immanuel Wallerstein
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with… — Immanuel Wallerstein
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an… — Jean Genet

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