#match

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. ↗

— Venus Williams

#course #even #go #good #lose

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #does #done #horror #just

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#fun #like #match #played #tennis

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. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#humans #includes #matches #me #mere

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air. ↗

— Rex Hunt

#air #catch #fish #flying #fresh

Misery is a match that never goes out. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#match #misery #never #out

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#been #believe #boundary #county #cuts

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. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#ball #defeats #down #fight #give