The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.
I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.
The ability of the market to serve society gas been and is continually being undermined by the attacks levelled by its ideological opponents.
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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.
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.
Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.
Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents.
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.
The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists' by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.
