Quotes about mat (16 Quotes)






    He's got a really good chance to do well up there. His moves are really coming together. He's a lot more aggressive on the mat lately. I'm seeing in him now what I've always envisioned him to be capable of. He's really putting it together now. Last year, there were times I wanted him to wrestle like he is now, but maybe I was just getting ahead of myself. Now he's wrestling where he's dominating guys and throwing guys around. It's really nice to see.


    I was impressed with his overall wrestling ability. He had a lot of mat sense. He was aggressive. Once he was close to scoring, he finished hard. He's the type of hard-nosed athlete any coach would want.

    Muhammad slep upon a mat, and got up very marked on the body by it and someone said, 'O Messenger of God If thou hadst ordered me, I would have spread a soft bed for thee.' Lord Muhammad said, 'What business have I with the world I am a man on horseback, who standeth under the shade of a tree, then leaveth it.'


    I am very comfortable fighting southpaw, ... both my right and left hands are powerful. My ability to switch on the fly really is amazing -- most guys are not looking for it and then BOOM, I switch to southpaw and they are on the mat. I think that is a major part of my game, and I work on that as much as I do my conventional style.


    Arturo has always been the top performer in practice with an exceptional work ethic which has translated to his dominance on the mat over his career. With all of this said, there was still a lot of anxiety in the air (at state) for him as he showed this sort of dominance in the past two seasons and still had come up short with a state runner-up finish as both a sophomore and junior.

    Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

    Mack spent the whole ride taping his ankles and his headgear and visualizing. He's a step ahead of other high school wrestlers, but you would never know it from talking to him or watching him on the mat. He's so humble and a real class act.

    Chip the glasses and crack the plates Blunt the knives and bend the forks That's what Bilbo hates Smash the bottles and burn the corks Cut the cloth and tread on the fat Pour the milk on the pantry floor Leave the bones on the bedroom mat Splash the wine on every door Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl Pound them up with a thumping pole And when you've finished, if any are whole, Send them down the hall to roll That's what Bilbo Baggins hates So, carefully carefully with the plates.

    Part of the magic of Martha's Vineyard is that we were, all of us, more free here than any place else, ... On the island, we did not worry about our personal security. We did not lock doors we left keys under the mat in the car, slept with windows wide open, absent the need to protect person or property from outside invaders.

    Adam is kind of a combination of his two brothers. He's on the smaller side like Stevie was when he first started, but he's a physical kid and a physically hard worker in the weight room like Ryan. He can be physical on the mat like Ryan, but he's more of a slick wrestler like Stevie. He can use his feet to be slick or be pretty powerful.



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