The atmosphere and the first days of Test matches against Australia are incredible.
I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
My back was starting to deteriorate and basically what happened was I just couldn’t walk after a couple of matches here and there. I never had an MRI and I never knew what was going on in my body for so long, and then it was coming to point where I was always wrestling and not being able to walk after.
I’m not a big fan of watching my matches.
Everywhere I go, the styles are different. When you wrestle in Japan, it’s more strong style. When I go to Mexico, it’s definitely more high-flying. And in my matches I’ve had with Taya in Impact, it’s been a lot more ground-based.
Barca have many opportunities all the time to win matches, which in England is very difficult because the challenges are greater.
It was a great time being with Blake & Murphy. I always made sure that, even if their matches weren’t going the way they wanted to, they went the way that I wanted to.
When you don’t play those big matches for a few years, it’s tough to play back-to-back after that.
I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.
I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.
Beanbags and softball matches and a cool Twitter handle doesn’t make young people want to work at your office.
I think I have become mentally stronger now, and I have full confidence that I can finish close matches.
I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I’ve got a brand new look – I’ve moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
It’s important that I stay positive in my messages during matches because the rest of the team is following the tone and tension in my voice. Nothing in my voice should let them down.
At United, my United, we had been honed into a ruthless team who played great football but, ultimately, were there to win football matches and league titles. At Newcastle, they could certainly play on their day, and the crowd was formidable, but there was a weakness – a vulnerability that you could seek out.
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
I want to be on ‘SmackDown’ because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena – a lot of dream matches I can do.
I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.
As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
With ladder matches, you can’t expect anything other than craziness.
I loved WWE , but in the end, I was unhappy. It was just like planning an escape from a maximum security prison. I’d released a list of potential opponents online, so when the 90-day no-compete clause was up, I had matches booked on good faith. I thought about the follow-up.
You’ve just got to listen to what experienced people are telling you. You’ve obviously got to listen to what they want you to do in training and in matches and commit to improving every aspect of your game.
The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn’t go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.
White is pure and simple and matches with everything.
I was fortunate enough to watch Bayley at NXT, when they had their matches. Those girls were on fire. It’s all around us. Great ladies’ wrestling is all around us. So it has not disappeared by any means.
I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.
In the daytime during the summer, I only wear ‘Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage Concealer’ for coverage. I keep that in my bag at all times. I love ‘RMS Buriti Bronzer’ because it has a little bit of red in it, and my skin is on the reddish side, so it matches really well.
Grand Slam matches are always tough.
Playing matches is definitely going to help me get ready for the U.S. Open.
When you’ve won a lot of matches you know how to play the important moment – you have a great feeling on court, confidence. You know what you have to do, when to go for the shots or when to play solid. It’s really clear in your head, and you trust in your hands.
It is a source of great pride to have played 100 matches for a club as prestigious as Real Madrid.
Brock Lesnar was basically eye candy for MMA. He came in there, he was big, he was strong, he won a few matches, he captured the title, and then he was out. Not much of a career.
The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
I just love that in college football, we get these big nonconference matches early. It’s exciting for everybody. It’s exciting for the fans and the players as well.
My father was as involved as he could be. He was busy, but called me every day. He knew what was happening in school, and even came for my tennis matches.
I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we’d win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.
An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.
I’ve main-evented the most matches in NXT history.
You can’t have some phantom guy that’s got all the authority, that’s booking all the matches. It takes that stretch of believability and it goes way, way, way too far.
When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.
I felt like I evolved into a great singles wrestler in ECW because of the opportunities to speak and wrestle longer matches.
I’ve watched quite a few matches to understand English football.
I’ve played many matches against English clubs and the national team – and I always notice a difference in those games. When you play against the inventors of football, it adds more importance to the result, and you can see that demonstrated by the levels on the pitch.
You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
I would play GameBattles matches. Anything competitive is always going to get you more viewers. When there’s something on the line, it’s just more exciting to watch.
My uncle wrestled in the late ’80s to early ’90s, and I was too young to see his matches. However, he has always supported me in my journey, and I think that without his support, all this would not have been possible. He taught me a lot, and he is the reason that I’m a WWE wrestler.
You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don’t choose what you want to sing. It’s the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that’s what you’re going to sing.
It’s kind of an art, going out and performing. I’d like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
I know from Chelsea that it’s not about one or two brilliant performances. It is also about winning different types of matches.
If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that’s professional sport.
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
I grew up watching guys – like, I loved Mick Foley’s ECW promos; I loved CM Punk’s promos. There’s this guy, Eddie Kingston. He was just a fantastic talker, so I used to study and watch him. I mean, gosh, there’s just such a big list of guys who I used to study. I used to watch promos as much as I did matches.
They would go back and listen to my matches, and two days later, I’d be fined. Because no one heard it while it was being played, but they heard it on some mic behind the court. Is that the way it should be? I don’t think so.
