138 Quotes About Opponents

I never defeated a healthy opponent.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

Respect every opponent, but fear none.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

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