Quotes About Intensity

Oh, 'Sports Night' was tough because 'Sports Night' was... Well, you know, it's like Mamet. It's Sorkin. And I didn't realize that you had to immediately be off of the other actors' last line in their dialogue.

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

We like to play good, hard, tough, aggressive cricket when we're out in the field.

I play very tough tennis, you know.

Since I have been in the league, playing against the Chargers is a big deal, and has always been a tough one.

It takes a very tough man to play defensive line at any level of football, but to be able to do it on a Division 1 level, or a professional level, it takes that intensity, that aggression, and you have to be tough.

If you look at me outside the cricket ground, I am a simple, normal guy, like everyone else. But on the field, that passion flows because I have been through a lot of tough times and have lost many special people.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

The toughest opponent for me would have been Randy Savage, the Macho Man, because his intensity paralleled mine.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

World Championships is the toughest competition in the world.

On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.

Final pairing on Sunday in a PGA Tour event? If you can't get up for that, you better find something else to do.

One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side 'cause touring is no easy thing.

I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.