Quotes About Intensity

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in a smash-mouth game.

It's a massive experience: playing against Galatasaray and Besiktas, you can feel the atmosphere. It feels like the stadium is going to fall down due to the fans singing and bouncing.

Kansas City might be the loudest stadium that I've played in.

We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.

I think, as a fan, when you are sitting there in the stadium you want to be on the edge of your seat.

Generally, what I miss about tennis now is playing against the guys on the big stadium courts where the crowd are going nuts and roaring like crazy.

When I am on stage I am locked away in energy and in concentration. I hear and I think about nothing but the music and I can only relax when it is over.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Mission Ignition' was really brilliant. Each show was made in a day. It wasnt staged, we made each show in a day, and it was fairly intense.

Everyone becomes a lot more focused when you come towards the critical stages of the season.

Theatres, stages are dangerous places.

When you play a semi-final, it is impossible to be tired. You know how much is at stake.

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

Sledging makes things interesting. There are no robots playing. They are humans who want to perform well for the country. So when stakes are so high, emotions will take over. Sometimes sledging gets the best out of you.

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

There's a standard here as you step on the field as a Broncos defender.

'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it.