Opponents Quotes - Page 15

As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

Brad Alan Lewis

Real, Years, Long

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Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.

Brad Alan Lewis

Sports, Heart, Simple

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Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

Brad Alan Lewis

Sports, Struggle, Leader

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A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We] Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

Brad Alan Lewis

Hate, Fate, Men

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Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Fall, Reflection, Darkness

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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

Laozi

Children, Athlete, Play

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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive solution to the energy needs of the world. ... The real issue is whether their blueprints will work in the real world and not only in a "technological paradise."... Opponents of fission energy point out a number of differences between the real world and the "technological paradise." ... No acts of God can be permitted.

Hannes Alfven

Real, Science, Differences

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But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.

Jonah Goldberg

Real, Ignorance, Ideas

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All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

Christian, Cities, Numbers

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Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

Bent Larsen

Small Numbers, Games, Play

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Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

Alexey Suetin

War, Chess, Film

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By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.

Samuel Reshevsky

Time, Moving, Games

Samuel Reshevsky (1948). “Reshevsky's best games of chess: (Formerly titled: Reshevsky on chess)”, Dover Publications

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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, Doe, Chess

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Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

Dennis Prager

Government, Irs, Scandal

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I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.

Wladimir Klitschko

Motivation, Fighting, Glasses

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You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.

Wladimir Klitschko

Motivation, Important, Fighter

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The challenge for me is his size because, for the first time in my career, I'll be meeting an opponent who is taller than me and has a longer reach.

Wladimir Klitschko

Motivation, Careers, Challenges

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If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.

Vitali Klitschko

Motivation, Fighting, Interesting

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In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Haruki Murakami

Running, Distance, Long

Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.10, Random House

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After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

George Foreman

Dog, Work Out, Littles

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On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Van Jones

Lying, Fighting, Past

"Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2009.

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If an opponent won't watch you bet, then you probably shouldn't.

Mike Caro

Watches, Ifs

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The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

Keith Richards

Home, Fighting, Knives

Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.241, Hachette UK

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A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

Joe Hyams

Anxiety, Cosmos, Dojo

Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.4, Bantam

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Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.

Johan Cruijff

Change, Football, Running

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