There is always a dream, for me, in the locker room before matches as well during the day. If you have a strong mind, a strong tendency to keep you strong, I think your dream is coming.
Obviously, we don’t want to go into a World Cup thinking low about the team. We are very positive and had some good practice matches, which should give us confidence.
Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you’re doing.
When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.
I don’t pretend to be any different just because I win tennis matches, so hopefully brands appreciate my approach and my likeability, because it’s who I am.
The expectations? It is normal at a club like Everton. We want to win every game, do everything that we can to win our matches, and at the end we’ll see our position.
We have a unique format that allows for coaching of players during the matches. We have a team aspect so your teammates are there on the bench cheering you on.
It’s a good feeling that I am doing well in Test matches.
Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.
There is always pressure at a big club like PSG. All the matches are important.
When you train with good players or watch matches on TV, you want to do what they do.
My kids are soccer buffs. I have spent exorbitantly and unreasonably on taking them to soccer matches in England.
I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.
When you play good competitive cricket and win matches for your team, you always feel happy.
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father’s matches to burn the paper.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
I would have to say Ric Flair and Randy Savage were two of my favorite guys to work with; I had some good main-event type matches with both.
I might even go to a Rangers game – if I can squeeze one in. I am not the biggest fan personally, but my dad is a huge fan, he grew up watching their matches all his life.
I saw Kyrgios down in Australia. He played some very good tennis, won two or three matches, and has done the same here at Wimbledon. I think Australia’s got a good prospect in Kyrgios.
Confidence, you have to build it when you play some matches.
I’m really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I’m not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.
In my private life, I don’t really do too much because the matches are so tough in the Premier League that it takes time to recover in between.
Real Madrid have that special connection with Europe and Champions League matches. The fans transmit the importance to us and when you play a Champions League game, you get goosebumps, there is no better feeling in the world than that.
The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
I play better if the matches are tight.
I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that’s up to the WWE Universe. That’s up to the fans. But there is a guy on ‘SmackDown’ that I have yet to wrestle yet that’s certainly gonna happen at some point, and that’s Randy Orton.
I challenge anyone to find a better match than me and Goldberg at Havoc ’98. There are few matches that were as physical, exhausting, and psychological as that one.
When I was wee, in the middle of the summer, the big field behind the shops would be filled with dry grass and I’d get a box of matches. You chuck one match on that and the whole thing goes up in flames. Twitter’s a bit like that. You can just say one thing and it explodes from there.
I have always had a serious political career in mind and my secular ideology matches with that of the Congress.
I love to play big matches. I think it’s that that keeps the fire in me, keeps me on alert.
There is more emotion in a match in New Japan. The matches here in the U.S. are so fast that sometime they lack emotion. It is move, move, move.
I liked helping talent with their matches prior to my injury. Obviously, now as a producer it becomes more a larger responsibility than just me as a talent giving advice. What I didn’t know was I didn’t know how fulfilling it could actually be.
Let’s be honest, I’m not a guy who is going to grind out $10 entry fantasy matches. If I’m going to compete, I want to play at the highest stakes.
I had some poor matches, but nobody’s perfect.
I know if I’m doing the right things and if I do the right work, I’ll win those long matches, and the success will come itself. This is not something I think of on a daily basis.
I think having the King of the Ring on television can only help with the importance of matches and help wrestling.
Dark matches are usually off-camera. Sometimes you don’t even wrestle in front of the crowd, you wrestle in front of the agents – but my first match with WCW was on a pay-per-view.
I love pencil skirts, but I’m always looking for a top. And then I’m afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can’t make a mistake.
I was involved with Gary Kirsten only for the Test matches, a very short period. He was, again, someone who worked in the background and didn’t make himself visible. Exactly how I’d like to work as well. Not in the front, but behind the scenes.
I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.
One of the greatest matches I ever saw was Jerry Lawler against Terry Funk in the Memphis Midsouth Coliseum, but there was Flair vs. Steamboat in Nashville back in ’89.
I just look at like, if I’m doing 200 plus dates a year on the road with Raw or SmackDown, or I’m doing a manageable load of 30 to 50 matches with NXT – I can do four years of that in the time that I do one year on Raw or SmackDown.
You have to focus more in Serie A, because in the Champions League, focusing happens automatically, as there are not as many matches, and they are all tough.
I think Kohli is magnificent in a run chase, I have to say. He has won so many matches for India.
I’ve actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.
In my opinion, it’s better to be alone out there, having to decide on your tactics during the matches. I would prefer it if it was just me and my opponent having to solve the problems out there on the court.
But I still serve pretty big and that’s one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.
The goalkeeper always starts again at nil, even when you’re 2-0 down. It always starts again at scratch. It’s a completely mental thing, and I keep reminding myself of it during matches.
True-crime shows and podcasts aren’t the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence ‘matches’ a suspect, when scientists can’t be so definitive.
OK – we like to say how a striker creates space and influences matches in other ways, but let’s not pretend: at the end of the season, the best striker everyone talks about is the top scorer.
I think in 1997, I was in my absolute prime. I was never bitter; I was uninjured. I was ready to go and ready to make some serious changes to make a difference to have my all-time favorite matches that I would have loved to have.
If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn’t feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
When you get a co-star with whom you can do some give-and-take, it becomes like one of those lawn tennis matches where you give a great reply to a serve.
You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it’s going to be really hard to come back.
Obviously, I love Boston. I love the passion. It kind of matches my personality. The fans, I almost feel like they’re just as passionate as me.
If you play 100-odd Test matches, there’s going to be little periods when you don’t score runs, and I’ve always managed to turn it around.
I am happy working for Sky Italia, they pay me to go to watch football matches which is great by me.
