Quotes About Opponent

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check.

Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent. ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis ~ Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

I've never viewed you as an enemy, more an adversary...

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

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.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent - a bit of confidence and attitude - and then you can change what their next move may be.

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.

As a player it was always not easy to play against Australia. It was always very difficult.

I wouldn't duck anyone. I'll fight anyone.

I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

What I am calling 'Not One Thing' means neither being taken by nor drawn toward phenomena, that there is neither opponent nor myself,17 and that there is nothing more than following phenomena as they come, responding to them, and leaving no traces.

Do you typically block your opponent's blade with your face, Hauclir?' Malus said by way of greeting. 'If the tactic's good enough for my lord and master it's good enough for me,' Hauclir deadpanned.

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Checking shows weakness, and is best used when you think that a bet on fourth street will prompt a fold, but a check, showing weakness or uncertainty, will prompt a call on fifth street when your bet gets interpreted as a steal attempt. This strategy is also best used when you have position on your opponent

For a continuation bet to be a profitable move, the amount of the bet has to be carefully chosen in comparison to the pot. In essence, you are hoping to buy the pot right now. If you overpay, you'll lose too much money when your opponent calls with a hand better than yours. If you underpay, you'll be offering your opponent correct pot odds to stick around with a drawing hand. Neither situation is good, so the exact amount of the bet is very important.

probing bets to be a little smaller than my continuation bets, since I'm starting from a weaker position. (It was my opponent, rather than me, who took the lead in the hand.) Anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of the pot is a good range.

The great tennis player John McEnroe used this to his advantage on the courts. When an opponent was performing especially well, for example by using a particularly good backhand, McEnroe would compliment him on it. McEnroe knew this would cause the opponent to think about his backhand, and this thinking disrupted the automatic application of it.

I like playing the villain role.