#matches

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#am #go #i #i am #just

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

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

— Charlie Haas

#against #anybody #good #matches #should

After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there? ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#matches #poetry #vodka #writing #life

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 don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#ball #breath #care #certain #choke