I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.
I’ve got my years on tour now kind of under my belt, and I’m getting the experience and playing more and more big matches, which I think helps.
If you look at Arsenal today, I really enjoy watching them play – they play some really good football – but that is not enough to win football matches or to win competitions. But in our time, we were winning, and we had the strength to not play well but somehow manage to win the game 1-0.
I’ve been reading about the idea of cyclical lives – it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was ’91. Another good match. I’ve played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
In a way getting fired up for these matches is what makes the Premier League the hardest tournament for me. Knowing I can lose and still be in the tournament probably makes me relax too much sometimes.
No one would ever take Messi out of a match if the teams are evenly matched. But it can be done in matches where we take a big lead. This way, he can preserve his fitness.
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.
When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the point where, ‘Oh my gosh, man, this is a lot.’
Guys like Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal know how to win matches, they don’t need to have as much confidence as other players.
We all prosper when folks are more appraised of how great those matches were and how great those talents were from all of the guys who populated the NWA in the ’80s.
I’m very, very focused on my children. In fact, I’m very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don’t work. So as long as I’m not traveling, I’m always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
We enjoy playing matches; that’s why we play football.
I competed hard in the heat of the battle, and there were a few occasions where I played my best in the top matches. As for the best ever? I don’t think so.
For me, it was the early independent era of AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Daniel Bryan that inspired me and they were in sports halls and grimy little venues having fantastic wrestling matches and that’s what appealed to me about wrestling at the time.
We’re bringing a focus on wrestling. We’re bringing an emphasis on wrestling matches and action taking place in or around the ring. We’ll do great interviews too, but in these segments, we can do it all in the arena and around the ring. We can do some stuff backstage; we just don’t spend half the show backstage.
I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match. I just wanted us to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting wrestling moves.
I have played some good matches against Rafa on clay.
Bundesliga matches are always exciting – with low ticket prices, standing terraces means all matches are played before the highest average attendances of any professional football league and creates a thrilling and breathtaking atmosphere.
Excitement was there because I had the realisation of having matches that weren’t always TV matches, that weren’t always strict on timelines or storylines and more so focused on the wrestling, different opponents I hadn’t worked before and a lot of one-on-one matches.
It’s interesting: I never got stressed before wrestling matches. I always felt completely confident that I had done everything I could do, all my mental preparations when I sat down and envisioned the match, so I never felt stressed.
You have to win football matches, and if you don’t, you allow people to criticise you.
When I was going off to training and matches at Arsenal, my mum wouldn’t be on the side cheering me on: she’d be working so I’d have football boots. I saw that you had to work hard if you wanted to do anything in life.
The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.
I feel like I play better when I’m calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.
I love the multi-format series. Within it they’ve found a way to retain Test matches and England v Australia in the Test arena, they were always my favourite matches to play in.
If you look at wrestling when I started to get my big break back in 1992, I changed wrestling from the cartoons of Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik and the matches with the leg drop and the hand behind the ear and the playing to the crowd. They were just cartoon characters if you ask me.
I have played in matches where individuals have frozen and gone into their shells: they don’t want the ball, they don’t communicate, and they don’t do their jobs. Fear turns them to stone.
I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I’d go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in ’67, the first one. In ’68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.
More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he’s playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking ‘oh my God, I’m going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that’s going to be painful.’
There is nothing else can get you ready for matches than matches.
I like there to be a good atmosphere in the dressing room, for music to be played before matches. We have to entertain the fans and have a good time ourselves.
As we formulate big four matches, there should definitely be a lucha presence involved.
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
I went from two-minute matches when I started with NXT to eight, to 10, to 12.
I listen to both, but more grime before matches to get you kind of pumped up. But then I might switch to the U.S. hip hop to just vibe out.
Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table… one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
I have not played that many matches for India, but whenever I play in Bengaluru, I feel it is like my home. I have taken wickets here.
Most fans don’t realize 75 percent of the matches we have are non-televised. I prefer a non-televised show because it is more ring-focused and fan interactive.
We already know what Leo is capable of and it’s a pleasure to see him on a daily basis. The level of effectiveness he has in training and matches is tremendous. He is fundamental in free-kicks, in open play, that’s why he’s the best player in the world.
There’s always a mix of generations in the national team. You have to bring the best players you think will help you win matches.
Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.
With more sponsors coming in, media engagements happening, and matches being televised, youngsters can get carried away. In such a scenario, a mentor can step in and help in channelising the cricketers’ energies into the sport.
As a professional wrestler in the position I am in, I would rather have people remember my matches for an emotion or for a certain thought it evoked when they saw it.
I perform better under pressure. If I go out there, and I’m not nervous, and I’m too relaxed, I don’t like that vibe. I like big matches. I like pressure situations.
As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that’s where the problems can lie.
I want to make contributions that help us win Test matches rather than put us in positions where we have to play extremely well to win.
I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn’t doing so well – I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said ‘wear this chain for good luck… ‘ and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.
That’s how you win matches – bowling in pairs.
