Opponent is someone who competes with or opposes another in a contest, game, or argument.

1. In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.
Miyamoto Musashi

2. A last trick is to become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

3. It is not your opponent but your weaknesses that hurt you the most.
Apoorve Dubey

4. Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.
Philip Sheridan

5. Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Samuel Johnson

6. Others are not really our opponent but the real opponent is ourselves.
Jeff Lo

7. It is better to have an enemy who honestly says they hate you than to have a friend who's putting you down secretly
Anonymous

8. I'm fighting myself, there is no opponent.
Conor Mc Gregor

9. For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
Mary McCarthy

10. You and your opponent want the same thing. The only thing that matters is who works the hardest for it
Anonymous

11. Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Paul Begala

12. Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game.
Chris Carter

13. To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold

14. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities… It is best to win without fighting.
Anonymous

15. In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

16. I’ve been focusing on what I need to do to my opponent. I’ve been doing a lot of visualization, imagining myself in the ring. I’m ready for anything. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to win. I know I’ll find the strength.
Roberto Benitez

17. If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
Henry Rollins

18. When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
Miyamoto Musashi

19. Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.
Georges St-Pierre

20. My opponent is my teacher and I am his teacher. I have to show him what he’s doing wrong and I have to learn from what he’s teaching me. You can’t think of him as an enemy, it’s the wrong mindset, you don’t fight with anger or hate, you’re always going to lose that way.
Jon Fitch

21. Work harder than your opponent.
Kevin Duran

22. I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect.
Fedor Emelianenko

23. It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Viktor Korchno

24. If an opponent won't watch you bet, then you probably shouldn't.
Mike Caro

25. Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
Vince Lombardi

26. Honor your opponent. He is raising the bar, providing the hurdle which will make you leap higher, challenging your limits so you go further
Anonymous

27. Never underestimate your opponent but never make him bigger than you.
Philipp Schranz

28. My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
Claiborne Pell

29. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR OPPONENT
Anonymous

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

31. In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
Lennox Lewis

32. Your biggest opponent is the one in the mirror
Anonymous

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33. The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent
Anonymous

34. Know yourself, and know your opponent. They are never as strong as you think, and never as weak either.
Carlos Newton

35. True strength isn't in killing – or ignoring – your opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
Ilona Andrews

36. 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

37. If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. Donna Brazile

38. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
Haruki Murakami

39. So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child – the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
Dan Millman

40. Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Ovid

41. To say or write a distasteful word is surely not violent especially when the speaker or writer believes it to be true. The essence of violence is that there must be a violent intention behind a thought, word or act, i.e. an i9ntention to do harm to the opponent so-called. False notions of propriety or fear of wounding susceptibilities often deter people from saying what they mean and ultimately land them on the shores of hypocrisy. But if nonviolence of thought is to be evolved in individuals or societies or nations, truth has to be told, however harsh or unpopular it may appear to be for the moment. Satyam bruyat, Priyam bruyat na bruyat Satyam apriyam
M. K. Gandhi

42. Being My Enemy Automatically Makes You A Fashion Disaster
Anonymous

43. See? she says. “tricked you. You’re always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest.
I raise my eyebrow at that. “say no more.
Marie Lu, Prodigy

44. 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

45. Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes

46. The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. David M. Shoup

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

48. I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
Hale Irwin

49. When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba

50. Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
Henry Ward Beecher

51. Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength.
Helio Gracie

52. The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. Bill Russell

53. Know your opponent and you will never lose, know yourself and you will always win.
Sun Tzu's Art of War

54. Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu

55. You have to have respect for your opponent, because your opponent might be your.
Roger Federer

56. Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!
Bruce Lee

57. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
Buddha

58. If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.
Viswanathan Anand

59. It's okay to lose to opponent, must not lose to fear.
Mr. Miyagi

60. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities…It is best to win without fighting.
Sun Tzu

61. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi

62. You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2 2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.
Mikhail Tal

63. It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.
Jay Haley

64. Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Sun Tzu

65. If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.
Kiersten Warren