Opponents Quotes

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  But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  Payne Stewart

  Friendship, Sports, Golf

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• Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

  George F. Kennan

  Military, Ocean, Government

  Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.

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• I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Issues, Political

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Focus

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Winning, Games, Play

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• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

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

  Andre Agassi

  Hair, Feels

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• We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Virtue, Absence, Possession

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, World, Rivals

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Bridges, Golden

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

  Adolf Hitler

  Money, Children, Freedom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fate, Mma

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.108, Shambhala Publications

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• If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Winning, Games, Play

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• Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Games, Names

  Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

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• You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Winning, Thinking

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• To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Aikido

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

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• The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

  Imran Khan

  Team, Winning, Doe

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• Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Winning, Trophies

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• You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Anger, Sunset, Discipline

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• A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

  Donna Brazile

  Vision, Campaigns, Defining

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• I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Giving, Style, Boards

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• Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Men, Political

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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