Quotes About Intensity

Probably the Liga MX or the American league, there are a higher number of competitive games than in the Spanish league or the English league.

I have watched many Premier League games and they look very different to the Spanish game, particularly much faster.

You know when you are in the peloton and you come near the Ventoux, nobody's speaking anymore, you can hear a fly, because it's always very quiet because everybody's afraid about the Ventoux, because it's a hard climb.

A derby is always special.

I'm looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It's a special club.

There's no nights off in the NBA. That's what makes it so special. That's why everyone loves the game.

Anybody who has wanted me to go out there and pull some emotion out and act like we are going to get down, that's what I specialize in. That's fine. That's something that I do, and that's something that I've done over the breadth of my career. With Brock Lesnar, regardless of who he is, it was going to be no different.

At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

I think it will be quite the spectacle to have Awesome Kong and Beth Phoenix in the same ring at the same time.

We used to see spectacular things with Jon Jones when he fights.

I don't go out looking to make spectacular plays. I just try to come in and be a physical presence inside.

It seems to me, personally, that the things that are great during Christmastime are magnified. Like everything is that much better. Everything is magical and spectacular. The things that are wrong or sad are just so much more wrong or sad.

Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to her speech at the Golden Globes. That woman has so much intensity. She's amazing to watch and to listen to. With some people, it can even be their voice that makes them attractive.

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

A lot of preparation was needed to play the character of Omar Sheikh in Omerta. I watched a lot of documentaries and hate speeches to cultivate anger in me.

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Football is a game of speed and drama.

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.