Sentence examples for match thinking from inspiring English sources

"It's not wise to enter a match thinking about a draw," he said.

Wawrinka said he tried to just extend the match, thinking that Cipolla would get tired.

You can't go into the match thinking about the one you lost before".

"As a goalkeeper you don't enter the match thinking about scoring, but it happened just as I wanted.

"I was watching Gabby in her bronze medal match thinking, 'I hope she's got some legs left for tomorrow'," Chris said.

I was thinking a lot about this match, thinking that it was a big opportunity and thinking about the previous years and my results here".

I was used to losing, and going into matches thinking I was going to lose, so I lost the nerves.

Then all of a sudden you don't have the big names anymore and other teams come into matches thinking differently.

"TOWARDS THE end of my playing career, in about 2000, I started seeing some of the other guys out on the court doing these strange things before a match and thinking, What in the world is that?" says Mark Merklein, 36, once a highly ranked tennis player and now a national coach for the United States Tennis Association.

'I tried to retract the toes and use them to catch some of the edge of the sock's fabric, pulling it over the hole like a too small blanket that had slid off the bed, but that didn't work - it seldom does.' This little discourse continues for three or four pages, and forms the first chapter, or diary entry: the first spent match of thinking that creates the book.

But match by match I keep thinking of the fantastic poem by Rudyard Kipling, If.