Match Quotes

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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. — Grantland Rice
A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one. — Harvey Penick
Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match? — Walter Hagen
When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy.… — Walter Hagen
Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match. — Judith Orloff
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research. — Billie Jean King
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. — Colley Cibber
Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement. — William Arthur Ward
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and… — Isaac Asimov
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. — Jimmy Connors
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my… — Muhammad Ali
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have. — Hale Irwin
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… — Bill Bryson
There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. — Robert Breault
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford. — George Best
It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at… — Bill Shankly
And my daughter really likes Justin Bieber, so I think she'll have fun watching him. But I think Rihanna is the perfect match for the… — Alessandra Ambrosio

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