Opponents Quotes - Page 24

• My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake.

  Peter Leko

  Mistake, Victory, Chess

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• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

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• I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Strong, Pain

  "Luis Suárez recognises no limits, either good or bad" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2014.

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• 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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• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Doe, Routine

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Resistance, Pressure

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• For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Sight, Balance

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