Opponent Quotes

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. (J. M. Barrie)
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. View quote
Savielly Tartakower
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. View quote
Marvin Gaye
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. View quote
George Orwell
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. View quote
Bobby Fischer
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. (Søren Kierkegaard)
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend. View quote
Alexis Arguello
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda. View quote
Richard V. Allen
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform. View quote
Ryne Sandberg
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent. View quote
Mikhail Tal
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. View quote
Yann Martel
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! View quote
Bruce Lee
Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique. View quote
Jigoro Kano
Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views. View quote
Peter Singer
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing - for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent. (David Gemmell)
...the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls. View quote
David Gemmell
I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, "Read my lips: no new taxes." View quote
George H. W. Bush
The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent. View quote
Camille Paglia
I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign? View quote
Chuck Norris