One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.
When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.
I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.
Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.
Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.
Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.
Our team goal is pretty simple. . . basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.