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Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals -- Neil Warnock
Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room. -- Lleyton Hewitt
The coach should keep out of the way... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players. -- Romario
I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology. -- William Shatner
I'm always traveling, so I tend to online shop. My go-to sites are Net-a-Porter and Matches. I recently moved to N.Y.C. and frequently shop at Sur La Table for my kitchen; Flair home collection, Aedes de Venustas for all my favorite home fragrances. -- Jourdan Dunn
White is pure and simple and matches with everything. -- Christian Dior
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. -- Harry Vardon
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be. -- Diego Maradona
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside. -- Alan Cohen
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world. -- Dan Gable
Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight. -- Bernhard Langer
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. -- Joan Miro
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour. -- Alan Lewis
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
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. -- Marilyn Monroe
I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches. -- Andre Leon Talley
When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside. -- Matisyahu
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. -- Jose Mourinho
Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see. -- Hulk Hogan
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. -- Bjorn Borg
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player. -- Suresh Raina
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
I come out before the matches because it's important the fans see I am in a good mood. When I get to the club, my mood is always lifted. You can be in a terrible mood, but once you are at Fulham, you are happy. -- Mohamed Al-Fayed
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
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches. -- Noel Gallagher
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
Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches. -- John Ridley
This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today. -- Roger Federer
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that. -- Wladimir Klitschko
I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches. -- George Foreman
Goals dictate how matches go. -- Paul Merson
What rivalry? I win all the matches. -- Martina Hingis
Forest have now lost six matches without winning. -- David Coleman
I'm not a big fan of watching my matches. -- Victoria Azarenka
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter. -- Anna Akhmatova
Your level of performance matches your dominant self image. -- Jack Canfield
I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches! -- Maria Sharapova
I regularly watch the scorecards of all Ranji matches. -- Greg Chappell
Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches. -- Evan Esar
You should be able to have good matches against anybody. -- Charlie Haas
Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches. -- Ariel Sharon
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves -- P. G. Wodehouse
The more matches I play, the more confident I get. -- Maria Sharapova
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will -- Malcolm Forbes
Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches. -- Lisa Kleypas
Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches. -- Ray Lewis
Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that -- Alfredo Di Stefano
Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back. -- Oliver Kahn
Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black. -- Nora Ephron
In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches -- David Coleman
The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them. -- Jelena Dokic
I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches. -- Charlie Nicholas
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. -- Will Rogers
There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division. -- Dominic Allen
I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. -- Rudyard Kipling
I've played in a lot of big matches and you learn from them. -- Li Na
Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches. -- John B. S. Haldane
Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic. -- Jose Mourinho
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. -- William Faulkner
I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs. -- Joan Rivers
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. -- Mohammed Daoud Khan
I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry! -- Andy Roddick
You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there. -- Ron Atkinson
Without inspiration, weâ??re all like a box of matches that will never be lit. -- David Archuleta
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country. -- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Women, be radiant on your wedding day. But make sure your soul matches your dress. -- Jason Evert
No. At the States we get no matches that are played in Europe on TV. -- Lindsay Davenport
Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you. -- Richard Branson
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. -- John Sununu
Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is. -- Esther Hicks
Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities, -- Artur Davis
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead -- Mathias Malzieu
Nobody says if you hit No. 2 in the world you have to win all your matches. -- Li Na
Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches. -- Daniel J. Mitchell
What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives. -- Barack Obama
Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities. -- Ben Stein
The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches... -- Euripides
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. -- Gary D. Schmidt
It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody. -- Roger Federer
Notting Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning -- David Coleman
He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you. -- Marie Lu
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be -- Diego Maradona
Yeah, it seems like it, right? It definitely was one of the best matches that I've played. -- Petra Kvitova
I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches. -- Shilpa Shetty
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand. -- Steig Larsson
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first -- Douglas Adams
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches. -- George Foreman
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. -- Michel Patini
You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches. -- Nancy Sinatra
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. -- Zaha Hadid
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals. -- Ken Blanchard
I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn. -- Coolio
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities. -- Joe Greene
Every opponent is a new opponent. Trust me, they don't give a crap how many matches I have won. -- Johanna Konta
I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches. -- Andy Roddick
I usually wear moulded boots for training, but I mainly wear studs in matches unless it s really dry. -- Peter Crouch
The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away. -- Alex Ferguson
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day. -- Gabriela Sabatini
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches. -- Albert Einstein
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron. -- Otto von Bismarck
Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities. -- Robin Marantz Henig
Anybody can win the matches you can dominate, but it's the tough matches that are going to make the difference. -- Jim Zalesky
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. -- Virginia Woolf
Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light. -- Phil Cousineau
The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches. -- John Denver
I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life. -- Martina Hingis
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves -- Laura Esquivel
[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves -- Laura Esquivel
If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple. -- Nicolas Anelka
I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones. -- Ernests Gulbis
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind -- Roy Keane
Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court. -- Maria Sharapova
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies. -- Don Yaeger
I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry. -- Jose Carreras

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