#matches

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. ↗

— John McEnroe

#desire #i #important #matches #most

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#father #illusion #love #matches #mother

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. ↗

— Michel Patini

#days #every #know #less #lot

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#days #matches #play #six #test

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

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#court #driving #life #matches #music

Paris at Night Trois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit La première pour voir ton visage tout entier La seconde pour voir tes yeux La dernière pour voir ta bouche Et l'obscurité tout entière pour me rappeler tout cela En te serrant dans mes bras ↗

— Jacques Prévert

#matches #poems #love

You should be able to have good matches against anybody. ↗

— Charlie Haas

#against #anybody #good #matches #should

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#books #burn #curious #draw #father

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#doing #good #illusion #keep #kind