Opportunity is not your opponent—it is your ally, but it’s hard to see that because opportunity is often camouflaged and hidden among danger and chaos.
A tie is a two-way loss, not a double win. Only a loser feels like a winner by being the equal of his opponent.
Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.
Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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.
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
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.
We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
I'm always telling Don King's people when there's a top-10 heavyweight they've got that needs an opponent, I'm ready.
If you kill, kidnap & rape your opponents claiming that you're fighting the terrorist that is not exist! Soon it'll be existing as you're sowing it! Miserable Egypt!
Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.
Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
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.
