Quotes About Intensity

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

Sixteen times a year, all thirty-two NFL teams give us what we're looking for: speed, skill, violence, fantasy league orgasms and a final score. No confusion. No doubt. No indecision. A winner and a loser.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning.

A derby is a derby. When you play a derby, it is for winning, not just to play.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

I put my heart into this. Like, winning to me is, I make it life or death.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.

When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.

If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

There's no bigger fight on the planet than Prince Naseem and Marco Antonio Barrera. What's bigger than that? This will be the greatest fight in the history of the featherweight division.

The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.

I can understand a bad pass or something like that; I don't get irate. But the one thing I can never accept is a lack of work rate. You have to be able to give everything you have.

I used to body build six or seven days a week. I was really, really fit. I wasn't naturally talented but I was fanatical at it. That's the problem with me, I've got a one-track mind.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.