“If I don't get off the mat, I'll lose the fight.”
Archie Lee Moore
“It is a long season, and you must have the capacity to get back up off the mat and fight another day. We certainly did not play very well, and that is obvious.”
Herb Sendek
“Ninety percent of the fights end up on the mat.”
Phil Cardella
“I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia [for Tomb Raider]. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.”
Angelina Jolie
“Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.”
Margaret Drabble
“We don't have an eighth place on the wall (BHS mat room), so I don't want to put one up there. I went out and wrestled my match.”
Nathan Scherer
“We were just too far down down to get off the mat. Our guys battled in the second half, and we just came up short in every way tonight.”