However, if your opponents are attempting to out-think you, and you're smart enough, you can win much more often.
To defeat adaptive enemies, we must out-think them in order to out-fight them.
A good catcher won't let you out-think yourself and get in trouble.
Traditional cricket is about out-thinking your opponent and subtle field changes.
Computers will be able to out-think the entire world population put together within the next 60 years, the head of Lucent's research division has forecast.
This Aussie consistently out-thinks the opposition, and is so cool when things get hot.
The holders produced a woeful performance, being completely out-hurled, out-paced and out-thought by a far more committed Westmeath side.
The United States has the resources to out-think them if we have the will to use it.
But while Grafton could out-think their opponents they couldn't resist their physical presence in the run home.
They had been out-thought once again by the Greeks, just as in Oporto 24 days ago.
This side is being out-thought and out-fought by virtually every team in the division with passionless and pedestrian performances.
This time, the challenge has been for our young designers to look to the future and out-think thieves.
He felt he out-thought himself in his last start, abandoning his fastball too quickly for off-speed pitches, and in the process lost his aggressiveness.
He fought in the trenches when he had to, beat-up the brawlers, out-thought the boxers, could beat anyone at their own game, but mostly dictated the action, even when he was backing up.
By cutting off access to the boundaries, Australia's fielders and bowlers out-thought India's batsmen.
Not only had his team been out-thought, out-gunned and out-played, but France were more disciplined as Wales lost their rag.
And the quarterback who out-thinks his opponent will celebrate victory.
Buxton out-thought us, out-battled us and out-played us.
But his young Terriers, with an average age of just 21, were generally out-thought and out-manoeuvred by their hosts, whose starting line-up worked out man for man seven years older.
For example, you can't brush them aside and it is impossible to out-think them.