#opponent

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#destroy #entire #even #fault #game

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#because #board #emotions #give #i

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

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#opponents #people #push #team #you

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

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. ↗

— Barack Obama

#billion #coastlines #collect #companies #corporate

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

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. ↗

— Nigel Short

#dazed #good #leaves #necessarily #opponent

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#because #been #defeated #failure #feelings