Opponents Quotes - Page 2

• I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Palms, Rooted

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• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  Ovid

  Giving, Victory, Crowns

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• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

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• When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Moving, Aikido

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Class, Rejection, Tests

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• To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

  Boyle Roche

  Lying, Deceit, Half

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• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  Vince Lombardi (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Exercise, Light

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Tyrants, People

  "The War on Libya and US Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama, 2011". Interview with Rick Rozoff, www.globalresearch.ca. March 28, 2011.

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• The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

  Curt Schilling

  People, Mentor, Teammate

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• I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Politician, Felt

  Winston Churchill's speech at the Institute of Journalists Dinner in London (November 17,1906), as quoted in "Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations" edited by Richard Langworth (p. 392), 2008.

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• The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Peace, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter III: Strategic Attack. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Hate, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

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• In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Creating, Boxing

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Kano Jigoro

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Expression

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Founder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 31, 1994.

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• I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Thinking, Games

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• Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Work, Heart

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• I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

  Mason Cooley

  Cheating, Winning, Merit

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• I didnt want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

  Mary Pierce

  Want, Knows

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• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Boxing, Trying

  Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.

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• IN THE ART OF PEACE we never attack. An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally.. Let attackers come any way they like, and then blend with them. Never chase after opponents. Redirect each attack and get firmly behind it.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Running, Art, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

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• In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity presents itself, without violating the rules of judo.

  Kano Jigoro

  Opportunity, Weakness, Moments

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 22, 1994.

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Feelings, Firsts

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• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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