Opponents Quotes - Page 11

• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

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• I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him.

  Brent Metcalf

  Wrestling, Giving, Looks

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• Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.

  John Wooden

  Running, Wrestling, Impact

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• Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, War, Drug

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• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

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• I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you are out to win you are better not wanting to know your opponent, much less grow to like him - and wish him, honestly success over you. I have never functioned that way.

  Percy Cerutty

  Sports, Winning, Over You

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• Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

  Brandon Todd

  Inspiring, Sports, Hurdle

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• Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clever, True Power, Expression

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• The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Inspirational Life, Ego, Emptiness

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• One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Littles, Chess

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• Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

  Yuri Balashov

  Chess Pieces, Chess Game, Realizing

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• I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

  Miguel Najdorf

  Play, Chess, Blunders

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• 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 wrong

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Play, Ideas, Waiting

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• Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Chess Pieces, Pawns, Weak Points

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• Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Feet, Giving

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• 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

  May, Violence, Causes

  Young India, 11 Dec. 1924

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• 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 your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

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• 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 opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• 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 matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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 and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Success, Art, Games

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• 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 see every opportunity to win over opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Winning, Opportunity

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Wisdom Box”

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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

  Running, Dirty, Fighting

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• 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 interest you can count.

  Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

  Tasks, Economics, Impression

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• 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

  Ideas, Evil, Age

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• 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. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Party, Order, Years

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