Top Opponent Quotes
When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.
James Carville
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
Vladimir Kramnik
And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Bill Russell
All Opponent Quotes
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Lance Morrow 
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Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Jose Mourinho 
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian 
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell 
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