Quotes About Intensity

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

Stay calm and aggressive.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.

The action of the earth on the stone takes place indirectly. The earth produces in its surroundings a gravitational field, which acts on the stone and produces its motion of fall...The intensity and direction of the field at points farther removed...are thence determined by the law which governs the properties in space of the gravitational fields themselves.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Je veux savoir ce que c'est que la passion, lui entendait-elle dire. Je veux ressentir quelque chose avec violence.

I want to know what passion is, she heard him saying. I want to feel something strongly.

I want to know what passion is, she heard him saying. I want to feel something strongly.

He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.