Opponents Quotes - Page 30

• There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.

  Jesse Owens

  Pain, Athlete, Winning

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• Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

  Tacitus

  Winning, Benches, Fame

  Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb (1911). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps”

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• What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Bridges, Intellectual

  Source: time.com

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• A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

  Karl E. Weick

  Winning, Opportunity, Outcomes

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• Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.

  Georges St-Pierre

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• A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.

  Dan Henderson

  Games, Mma, Technique

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• The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Situation, Knows, Commanders

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

  Thucydides

  Safety, Causes, Execution

  Thucydides (1996). “The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War”

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• When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

  Sun Tzu

  Giving, Hares, Opening

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• If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Law, Done

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• Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Democratic, Democratic Party

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• Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Lying, Fighting

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• Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

  John Wooden

  Fighting, Games, Two

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• I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

  Rafael Cavalcante

  Fighting, Thinking, Next

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• I know who I want to fight, but I don't pick my opponents; I leave it up to my team. They make those kinds of decisions. My job is to fight and win.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Jobs, Team, Fighting

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• 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.

  George H. W. Bush

  Lasts, Lips, Politician

  1988 Accepting the Republican presidential nomination, 19 Aug.

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• Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.

  Mark McKinnon

  Military, Games, Political

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• Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Smart, Men, Rome

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• The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

  Edward Kennedy

  Adventure, Winning, Past

  Ted Kennedy's concession speech to Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City, www.nydailynews.com. August 26, 2009.

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• The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

  Brad Lidge

  Baseball, Moving, Games

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• Our team goal is pretty simple ... basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.

  Curtis Granderson

  Team, Simple, Play

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• If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

  Jason Terry

  Pride, Over You, Defense

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• Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

  David Bronstein

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Strong, Moving, Games

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• I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

  Bent Larsen

  Strong, Moving, Thinking

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