Match Quotes

• For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Band
  • Memory
  • Survive

• I came here to see if I could win some points and now I'm in the final. Tomorrow's another match and I'll try do as well as possible.

  

  Gaston Gaudio
  • Points
  • Final
  • Match

• I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

  

  Boris Gelfand
  • Style
  • World Championship
  • Akiba Rubinstein

• I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match

  

  Darren Gough
  • Player
  • Could
  • Bulb

• She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Brave
  • Bored
  • Deserve

• That is the greatest match I've ever seen. It will be 120 years before you see another match like that.

  

  Nick Bollettieri
  • Greatest
  • Seen
  • Match

• On reflection, I think I was too focused on saving the game, ... I should have played naturally. I was too entrenched in a match-saving mindset.

  

  Adam Gilchrist
  • Game
  • Focused
  • Match

• There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Relationship
  • Perfect
  • Match

• When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

  

  Stan Smith
  • Goal
  • Playing
  • Court

• Curt Hennig was one of best guys I ever wrestled. If I could've come back and wrestled one last match, I wish I could've wrestled Curt. He was my favorite guy to wrestle.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Favorite
  • Match
  • Wrestled

• It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.

  

  Ricky Ponting
  • Through
  • Match
  • Unbelievable

• Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Night
  • Stories
  • Warrior

• The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

  

  Andrew Klavan
  • Trouble
  • Match
  • Ablaze

• When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

  

  Rene Girard
  • World
  • Single
  • Fire

• Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Good
  • Society
  • Sophisticated

• Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Match
  • Matchbox

• Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

  

  Nayantara Sahgal
  • Ambition
  • Race
  • Match

• Last year we could handle bigger teams. This year that's definitely a concern of mine. We had a team that could match up with anyone last year. We don't have a team like that this year.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Teams
  • Match

• I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at the draw.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Draw
  • Match
  • Rushing

• Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Ideas
  • Suffering
  • Match

• The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Played
  • Match
  • Exiting

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