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I have lived my dream and I am truly grateful for every experience that I have had in World Rugby. It's been an incredible journey, i would be doing all of the key stakeholders in the game an injustice if I was unable to 100 percent channel my energies and devote my full attention toward refereeing Australian Rugby and test matches. – Steve Walsh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It was not easy to work like that, because the matches were going very quickly and were unpredictable, i had to be very careful not to get hit. Fortunately, there are chairs on the side, so I could jump on them if the female fighters suddenly rolled under my feet. – Anna Konda	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Throughout my whole career, integrity has been everything to me, it is also everything and more to Venus. The false allegations that our matches were fixed hurt, cut and ripped into us deeply. – Serena Williams	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Just adding the sheer numbers that they have added to the registry will lead to some matches, but the rate of matches there goes beyond science. We've never seen anything like it. – Chad Ramsey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I'd prefer if I didn't have to play these sort of (long five-set) matches each time, but this is by far the best atmosphere I've ever been part of. – James Ward	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Physically I’m good. In Rio de Janeiro, I don’t think I had a bad week. I won good matches and lost one which I shouldn’t have lost, although it’s also true that the timetable of the previous match was strange. – Rafael Nadal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's not gods on one side and plebs on the other, matches are won by a whole family being together. – Bertrand Desplat	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite. – Scott Sandford	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
At the end, you know that you not going to be at 100 percent, so the most important thing when you are coming back is accept all the challenges, the weeks, months, that you didn't have the chance to be able to practice, to compete, accept that you're going to be a little slow, a little out of rhythm. You can practise a lot. I did. I practiced I think enough and with the right attitude, but at the end what you need is matches. – Rafa Nadal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I didn't feel prepared for playing in this big event, my first grand slam after one year, five-set matches, is very tough. – Del Potro	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's not that Kurt Busch on Wednesday got Kurt Busch on Wednesday story from the script, it's actually the opposite, she comes up with a script that matches the story she had been telling people. – Rusty Hardin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Now we are in the semi-finals of a tournament, everybody that's in that stage is already playing pretty well. They've gotten some matches behind them. Now it just comes down to stepping up. – Milos Raonic	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
She benefits enormously from connecting herself to that time period, but it also requires putting out a vision that matches with today's challenges, it really gets down to the basic idea of what needs to be in place in this day and age so that if you're a middle class family, your kids are actually going to have the opportunity to do better than you. – Chris Lehane	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it is fair to say that the football matches that took place during Christmas 1914 have both at times been downplayed and at other times been blown out of all proportion, a number of independent reports and sources exist that report on football being played between German and British soldiers during Christmas 1914. – Thomas Weber	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Thousands of media and fans will be traveling to Australia for the competition, apart from 16 teams, and their security is our utmost priority, we have asked ALOC to provide extra security in team and AFC hotels as well as police escorts for all official activities including training and matches in addition to increase in security across all venues. – Alex Soosay	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There was no quarter either asked or given in those backyard test matches. – Nino Ramunno	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it's inhumane, I don't think it's fair to anybody, to the players, to the fans, to the sport, when you see players pulling out of matches, passing out, having players with so many problems and complaining to the tournament that it's too hot to play, until somebody dies, they're just keep going on with it and putting matches on in this heat. – Frank Dancevic	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Heavy exposure to media alters the viewer's perception of social reality in a way that matches the media world. – Diane Levin & Jean Kilbourne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. – Mohammed Daud Khan	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I have lived my dream and I am truly grateful for every experience that I have had in World Rugby. It's been an incredible journey, i would be doing all of the key stakeholders in the game an injustice if I was unable to 100 percent channel my energies and devote my full attention toward refereeing Australian Rugby and test matches.

– Steve Walsh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was not easy to work like that, because the matches were going very quickly and were unpredictable, i had to be very careful not to get hit. Fortunately, there are chairs on the side, so I could jump on them if the female fighters suddenly rolled under my feet.

– Anna Konda

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Throughout my whole career, integrity has been everything to me, it is also everything and more to Venus. The false allegations that our matches were fixed hurt, cut and ripped into us deeply.

– Serena Williams

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Just adding the sheer numbers that they have added to the registry will lead to some matches, but the rate of matches there goes beyond science. We've never seen anything like it.

– Chad Ramsey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'd prefer if I didn't have to play these sort of (long five-set) matches each time, but this is by far the best atmosphere I've ever been part of.

– James Ward

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Physically I’m good. In Rio de Janeiro, I don’t think I had a bad week. I won good matches and lost one which I shouldn’t have lost, although it’s also true that the timetable of the previous match was strange.

– Rafael Nadal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not gods on one side and plebs on the other, matches are won by a whole family being together.

– Bertrand Desplat

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite.

– Scott Sandford

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

At the end, you know that you not going to be at 100 percent, so the most important thing when you are coming back is accept all the challenges, the weeks, months, that you didn't have the chance to be able to practice, to compete, accept that you're going to be a little slow, a little out of rhythm. You can practise a lot. I did. I practiced I think enough and with the right attitude, but at the end what you need is matches.

– Rafa Nadal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I didn't feel prepared for playing in this big event, my first grand slam after one year, five-set matches, is very tough.

– Del Potro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not that Kurt Busch on Wednesday got Kurt Busch on Wednesday story from the script, it's actually the opposite, she comes up with a script that matches the story she had been telling people.

– Rusty Hardin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Now we are in the semi-finals of a tournament, everybody that's in that stage is already playing pretty well. They've gotten some matches behind them. Now it just comes down to stepping up.

– Milos Raonic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

She benefits enormously from connecting herself to that time period, but it also requires putting out a vision that matches with today's challenges, it really gets down to the basic idea of what needs to be in place in this day and age so that if you're a middle class family, your kids are actually going to have the opportunity to do better than you.

– Chris Lehane

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think it is fair to say that the football matches that took place during Christmas 1914 have both at times been downplayed and at other times been blown out of all proportion, a number of independent reports and sources exist that report on football being played between German and British soldiers during Christmas 1914.

– Thomas Weber

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Thousands of media and fans will be traveling to Australia for the competition, apart from 16 teams, and their security is our utmost priority, we have asked ALOC to provide extra security in team and AFC hotels as well as police escorts for all official activities including training and matches in addition to increase in security across all venues.

– Alex Soosay

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There was no quarter either asked or given in those backyard test matches.

– Nino Ramunno

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think it's inhumane, I don't think it's fair to anybody, to the players, to the fans, to the sport, when you see players pulling out of matches, passing out, having players with so many problems and complaining to the tournament that it's too hot to play, until somebody dies, they're just keep going on with it and putting matches on in this heat.

– Frank Dancevic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Heavy exposure to media alters the viewer's perception of social reality in a way that matches the media world.

– Diane Levin & Jean Kilbourne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

– Dave Barry

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

– Mohammed Daud Khan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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