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Opponents Quotes

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  • Conqueror the self and you will conquer the opponent.~ Japanese Proverb
  • Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.~ Baltasar Gracian
  • Don’t trust the smile of your opponent.~ Babylonian Proverb
  • Forget your opponents; always play against par.~ Sam Snead
  • Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.~ Japanese Proverb
  • I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess when my opponent says of it, “That piece cannot be moved.”~ Soren Kierkegaard
  • I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent’s hair.~ Andre Agassi
  • If you call your opponent a politician, it’s grounds for libel.~ Mark Russell
  • Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission.~ Pat Riley
  • Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.~ Marvin Gaye
  • Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.~ James Matthew Barrie
  • Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.~ James A. Froude
  • The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.~ Francis Maitland Balfour
  • The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.~ Cus D’Amato
  • The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.~ Sidney J. Harris
  • The only one who can beat me is me.~ Michael Johnson
  • The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.~ Sadaharu Oh
  • The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.~ Cus D’Amato
  • We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.~ Edmund Rouse
  • You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.~ Bobby Knight
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