Quotes About Intensity

Once you get to the tournament, it's like, win or go home.

For me, the Premier League is the best tournament in the world. It's the hardest; you need to be 100 per cent to play every game.

The Matchplay is a straight knock-out tournament so everybody is under pressure straight away - I prefer that.

I think, in a tournament, things are always a little more exciting.

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.

I think to give everything I have on court is the best thing to do to win tournaments.

Once you get on to the racetrack on Sunday and you strap your helmet on and you come down especially toward the end of the race, it's every man for himself. It's me against the world. It's me against everybody else. Sometimes you're against your critics, as well, too.

Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

I'm not so fascinated by these ingenue roles. I tend to gravitate towards women in plays or shows or films that are more chaotic or have something dire going on.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

I don't know of any other driver on the track that doesn't get hot under the collar.

It's all about racing on the track.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.