#matches

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

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#before #building #cricket #field #foundation

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. ↗

— Harry Vardon

#beginning #carelessness #cause #lost #matches

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

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#been #experience #final #finals #i

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

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#big #empty #empty space #fall #filled

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #chess #control #does #hand

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#always #beginning #bit #cricket #drink