Match Duration Quotes

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.

In white-ball cricket the conditions do vary, but throughout Tests it varies a lot more in a five-day game, and home advantage becomes more prevalent in Test cricket.

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

Time has never really been an issue in Test cricket, especially in the modern game where things naturally move quicker than they have in the past.

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

In T20, there's a time shortage because you've got four overs. In one-day cricket, you relax, and the game goes long, and you only win the game in the last 10 or 15 overs.

People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.

If we want football to be a sport that is no longer a sport, then use VAR on every incident. However, if we get to March, where every point becomes decisive, then games can last three or four hours.

When you play against Rafa, you have to play two hours and 40, 45 minutes.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

I can remember that my match with Savage at WM3 lasted less than 20 minutes.

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

The thing for me is - and one of the reasons I was never a fan of Goldberg in the beginning when everybody was like 'Oh, he's so good! - I was like, 'No, he's terrible, he's hurting people,' and there's nothing else. He just has three-minute matches.

With ECW, I had a lot of time for matches. I could go out there and do a 20-25 minute match, where normally I'd get to do a 7-8 minute match.

On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.

There are a lot of guys who have never had to go to a commercial break during their match.

We've got to get the public back into watching Test matches - speeding up the game with innovation is one way forward.

A lot of my main-event matches will last around the half-hour mark, and if you can have a variety of emotions within that half hour, that's a great story from start to finish.

The game has changed since the '80s, where you could punch and kick and headlock and do one suplex, and that's a 25 minute match.

I went from two-minute matches when I started with NXT to eight, to 10, to 12.