Opponents Quotes - Page 19

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Interesting, Looks, Computer

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• Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

  Luis Suarez

  Soccer, Hands, Looks

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• Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

  Vince Lombardi

  Beats, Strongest

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• Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Dear, Amenable

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.32, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

  David Walker

  Winning, Self, Challenges

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• The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Errors, Enemy, May

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.518

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• When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Blow, Mind, Four

  "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.

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• Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Fighting, Cutting, Blow

  "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.

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• Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Essence, Evil, Conquer

  "Behold the Second Horseman" by Joseph Lumpkin, (p. 44), 2005.

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• When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.

  Wanderlei Silva

  Thinking, Trying, Dare

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• You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

  Sun Tzu

  Warrior, Defense, Martial Arts

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• I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Humility, Fighting, Acceptance

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• My opponent is my teacher and I am his teacher. I have to show him what he's doing wrong and I have to learn from what he's teaching me. You can't think of him as an enemy, it's the wrong mindset, you don't fight with anger or hate, you're always going to lose that way.

  Jon Fitch

  Teacher, Hate, Teaching

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• Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

  Rashad Evans

  Thinking, Skills, Mma

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• I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Athlete, Fighting

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

  Ronald Reagan

  July, America, April

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• Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.

  David Sklansky

  Hands, Play, Cards

  "The Theory of Poker". Book by David Sklansky, www.businessinsider.com. 1999.

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• Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.

  Keeth Smart

  Thinking, Knowing, Assets

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• In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.

  Keeth Smart

  Sports, Jobs, Important

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• The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

  Criss Jami

  Arguing, Apologetic, Position

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.13, Criss Jami

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• He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Talent, Mathematics

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.159

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Long

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• I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Opposites, Issues, Groups

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.378, W. W. Norton & Company

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• [The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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