#match

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#bad #calls #every #got #i

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#bad guys #beat #boxing #boxing match #cowboy

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#important #important things #life #match #more

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

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair. ↗

— Tim Yeo

#conservative #conservative party #equal #first #first time

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not. ↗

— Aeschylus

#fear #i #match #partners #then

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#answers #because #day #every #every day