#match

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#australian #been #culture #down #every

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#bright #could #elevated #few #horizon

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax. ↗

— Elena Vesnina

#end #felt #i #match #relax

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#back #bet #called #challenged #could

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too. ↗

— Hal Sutton

#chad #ended #got #great #had

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#ideas #matched #partisan #passion #politics

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'. ↗

— Marat Safin

#behind #care #coming #everything #fault

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people. ↗

— Marat Safin

#happens #lot #matches #matter #new