#matches

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

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 have a book of matches. I wrote it myself. The Spanish Inquisitors would love to burn it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#burning-books #funny #humor #matches #spanish-inquisitors

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

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

Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#boxing-matches #gambloes #life #moments #morningside

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#difference #easier #forget #forty #good

You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#becomes #between #dan #i #i think

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. ↗

— Mohammed Daud Khan

#cigarettes #feel #happiest #i #i can