We have to work as a team, play as a team. This is how you win matches.
I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.
I feel that I have had great matches with Rey Mysterio, AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins.
I got told I wasn’t allowed to go on loan, which was a good thing but, at the same time, I just wanted to play matches. So do I annoy the manager and try to push for a loan or was I just to keep working hard and trust him?
English football is very different from Italian; it’s more physical, and matches are always very open.
Obviously, you know, when you talk about dream matches and you talk about the WWE, you can’t not mention John Cena.
When I first played, I had the belief that I could go out there and win matches but when people saw me first I don’t they had the belief. I had to be able to be able to prove, to tell them you can count on me.
All matches have a high difficulty level.
Playing tennis, I didn’t tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.
My time at Real Madrid wasn’t a failure. I played 120 matches, I scored 28 goals, and I played an average of 30 games a season. What’s more, I won three trophies: La Liga, a Copa del Rey, and a Supercopa de Espana.
At the end of the day, when I hang up my boots for the last time, I hope I have the respect from the other wrestlers and fans alike who enjoyed my matches and thought that I was one of the best.
My ring name is ‘Bullet,’ which was given to me by Pavel. It’s, like, tradition for your coach to give you your fight name. There’s a superstition that says if your fight name matches who you are as a person, it will give you a lot of success in your fighting career.
Everyone has bad matches or bad segments into their careers, if you get through it, you know there is going to be another segment another day.
I want very badly to have a success story at the end of it, at the end of my career and say, regardless of how many matches I can win this summer, I want to go to the U.S. Open – for that be my final event – and say I went out on my own terms, instead of it being taken away from me in Winston-Salem in 2013.
Even when matches don’t work out the way you planned, you’ve always got to stay strong in defence; it’s a matter of willpower and intelligence.
I’ve had my processes and opportunities with the Mexican national team. I played a lot of international matches for my country and now I think it’s time to give the younger players and generation a chance.
There’s so many great matches that you can think of. I could fantasy book all kinds of stuff, you know, fight a few family members. If we could have Umaga back, I would love to wrestle him in any arena in any town just because of how good he was.
Numbers are not important. Muttiah Muralitharan is a legend with 800 wickets. I don’t even know if I can play the number of matches he has played. It was nice to get noticed but frankly numbers don’t attract me much.
Ultimately, the one who scores the winning run is a finisher, irrespective of whether he’s an opening batsman or No 11. What matters is how much you are contributing. If you can win matches for your team, you are a finisher.
I like to hit hard, I like to be hit hard, and I like really competitive matches. That’s my take on pro wrestling.
I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage – all my luggage matches.
Cesaro, and I’ve always thought this ever since I saw complete matches and work with guys and be able to do all of the things that he does and you see pretty much all of it in a 15-20 minute extravaganza, I think he’s special.
Handling pressure is the key to doing well in Indo-Pak matches.
But if you have live matches and there is TV coverage, I’m sure you have more viewership because people would love to see women’s cricket again on television.
Test matches are what really drive me to perform.
Ivan Koloff was great. I had a lot of great matches with him.
Melody’s like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen.
Since I’m playing so many matches, I just need to rest. Every nap, it’s very welcoming.
When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, ‘Hell yes, I’m going to captain this ship.’ Then I was like, ‘Oh, wait, you’re losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.’ That’s Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what’s universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you’re winning, you’re not playing that many.
If you were to watch any of the British Bulldogs’ matches against the Hart Foundation, it was lightning in a bottle, with incredible tag team competition that was ahead of its time.
Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
No player can win matches on his own.
I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches.
India-Pakistan matches always capture the imagination of people from either side.
Test matches to me are the caviar compared to the fast food stuff. Having the ability and the constitution to triumph over five days is what it’s all about.
Before I play matches I’m always switching myself on. That’s why I have that walk-on music – Two Steps From Hell – they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I’m switched on and I’m ready for a brawl!
Federer can be off for six months but knows how to win matches.
It is frustrating when you go all that way, you train, and you just don’t turn up. It does happen. If you play 100-odd Test matches, there’s going to be little periods when you don’t score the runs.
I go to matches to watch players who entertain. I still watch old footage of Paul Gascoigne.
I’m constantly trying to be strong, to be calm when things get tough. The biggest part of that is keeping things in perspective, not being afraid of playing long matches, not putting too much pressure on yourself. It can’t be all or nothing, right here, right now.
I love a match like Money in the Bank; I love a hardcore match, and that’s what the Money in the Bank ladder matches are. Throw the rule book out and let out your imagination.
Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can’t just show up and get handed matches.
My parents weren’t very sporty, and football wasn’t part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.
The ‘Vampire of Ropraz’ claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa’s father matches that of a notable Swiss artist and restorer. The eventual suspect has the overlong teeth and shambling menace of a would-be vampire, but Chessex leaves the real possibility of his guilt an open question.
I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching – 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.
I’ve always prided myself on doing different types of matches with different opponents.
I’ve been lucky, my wife’s been amazing. Any time we’ve had cricket matches she sends me to the spare room to get some sleep. She takes care of everything.
I remember having a great crush on Nari Contractor, the cricketer. I used to go to test matches just to watch him. I had another great crush on Shammi Kapoor.
When you go see a magic trick, the first thing you ask is, ‘How do they do that.’ That’s what I hope the kids are saying when they leave the matches.
I don’t think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.
We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.
I am working towards it, and it is a dream to play Test matches for India.
I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.
We are at a point now where people respect us and respect our work – the guys want to sit down and watch women’s matches.
It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.
I remember going to Birmingham City matches as a kid and there were these other kids in Small Heath who had their own odd, partly Scouse accent.
It shouldn’t matter, but I want to play the big matches on the big courts.
