#opponent

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#comparable #develop #does #game #important

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#having #i #life #made #opponents

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces. ↗

— Venus Williams

#oh #opponent #pieces #saying #tennis

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

#disconcerting #forget #goes #induce #last

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

#arsenal #fantastic #football #gave #matches

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier. ↗

— Doug Collins

#court #down #easier #get #home

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#anger #angry #get #good #good loser

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

#creates #equation #half #i #joined

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#convincing #die #does #eventually #familiar

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#depends #described #english #everything #eyes