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1 " If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected . "
― Sun Tzu , The Art of War
2 " If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. "
3 " Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle. "
4 " Accept things inf life and then start fighting. It is like knowing the armory skills of your opponent before beginning the battle. "
― Rajasaraswathii , A Diary to win
5 " Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear "
6 " If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose. "
7 " it was so hard to see what the future held because to perform at this game, you have to be “in the mud,” obsessed with the task at hand. Perspective is neutralized, stunted so that you can capture only the most relevant, time-sensitive data that will determine how to approach your opponent that day. Then you look up and realize your 20-year career has been a collection of days where you couldn’t see tomorrow. "
8 " Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory. "
― , In the Zone and Other Sports Essays
9 " Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the centre of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped. "
10 " Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. "
― Stokely Carmichael
11 " I study the chessboard and concede defeat." You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. " Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over. "
12 " Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control. "
― Rae Carson , The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)
13 " What, then, should you do? With an excellent hand, you should bet: You lose nothing if your opponent folds, while giving yourself a good chance of winning a big pot if he calls. But with a middling hand, you shouldn't bet: If he has a bad hand, he'll fold, and you'll win the ante, which is what you'd have won anyway by checking; but if he has a good hand, he'll call and win. It's heads he wins, tails you don't. You should check instead, and hope your middling hand wins the ante.What about with a terrible hand? Should you check or bet? The answer is surprising. Checking would be unwise, because the hands will be compared and you will lose. It actually makes more sense to bet with these bad hands, because the only way he might drop out is if you make a bet. Perversely, you are better off betting with awful cards than with mediocre ones, the quintessential (and rational) bluff. There's a second reason for you to bet with terrible cards rather than middling ones: Your opponent will have to call a little more often. Because he knows that your bets are sometimes very weak, he can't afford to fold too easily. That means that when you bet with a good hand, you are more likely to be called, and to win when you are. Because you are bluffing with bad cards, your good hands make more money. "
― Tim Harford , The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
14 " If, one day, you find yourself involved in a dirty game, keep in mind that you end up screwed unless you screw your opponent over. "
― , Secrets of a Perfect Hair Color: Adventures of an Urban Woman (On Hair and Humans Book 1)
15 " Have you ever played chess, Kitty?”I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? “Not really.”“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,” she said. “It’s a game of strategy, mostly. The strong pieces are in the back row, while the weak pieces—the pawns—are all in the front, ready to take the brunt of the attack. Because of their limited movement and vulnerability, most people underestimate them and only use them to protect the more powerful pieces. But when I play, I protect my pawns.”“Why?” I said, not entirely sure where this conversation was going. “If they’re weak, then what’s the point?”“They may be weak when the game begins, but their potential is remarkable. Most of the time, they’ll be taken by the other side and held captive until the end of the game. But if you’re careful—if you keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your opponent is doing, if you protect your pawns and they reach the other side of the board, do you know what happens then?”I shook my head, and she smiled.“Your pawn becomes a queen.” She touched my cheek, her fingers cold as ice. “Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game. Never forget that, all right? Never forget the potential one solitary pawn has to change the entire game. "
― , Pawn (The Blackcoat Rebellion, #1)
16 " If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
17 " If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. "
― Sun Tzu
18 " I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. " I don’t play that game anymore. It’s for kids." " It’s got four thousand attack power," I coaxed." Five thousand," Nico corrected. " But only if your opponent attacks first." I smiled. " Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid once in a while. "
19 " Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go. "
― Mark Lawrence
20 " I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst. "
― Christopher Hitchens , Hitch 22: A Memoir
