Do not let your opponent see your spirit
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.
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.
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.
We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.
Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
I believe if my opponent [Hillary Clinton] should win this race, which I truly don't think will happen, we will have a Second Amendment which will be a very, very small replica of what it is right now. But I feel that it's absolutely important that we uphold, because of the fact that it is under such trauma.
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.
The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
One should respect a defeated opponent!
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.
I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.
Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.