Opponents Quotes

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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

In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

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

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.

If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Do not let your opponent see your spirit

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.