Opponent Quotes
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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.
Nigel Short
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That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.
Adam Goucher
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
John Locke Nazareth
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You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
Alexander Kotov
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When your team is on a losing streak, you schedule a game with a cream-puff opponent. Then you go with the hot hand.
Bruce Bartlett
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We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
Bud Wilkinson
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I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.
Daniel Negreanu
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If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.
Hasan Minhaj
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
Nicola Adams
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Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
Alexander Khalifman
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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
Adolf Hitler
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Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy.
Carole Nelson Douglas
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I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
Emanuel Lasker
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My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.
Joseph M. Kyrillos
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Sidney Hook
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You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.
Evan Esar
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In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
Harry S Truman
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There was something so cool about being able to carry this film Into the Forest together with Ellen Page and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.
Demian Maia
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I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.
Reid Ribble
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Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.
Brandon Todd
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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