Quotes About Intensity

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!