Quotes About Intensity

The rain felt good," Cee says. "Like…no rain I've ever felt before." "Fresh," I say. "Pure." "Right, until it started raining blood.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.

Marla cursed--though her profanities we less destructive than Rondeau's, they were more heartfelt.

In real life, being relentless is a state of mind that can give you the strength to achieve, to survive, to overcome, to be strong when others are not. It means craving the end result so intensely that the work becomes irrelevant. Not just in sports, but in everything you do. The ability to be relentless is in all of us.

That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.

What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

My definition of 'love' is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.

Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you're writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, long time.

I don't care if you're my brother—if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.

Como si la dificultad y el esfuerzo y la tortura confirieran de algún modo seriedad al trabajo que has elegido.

My lady, this is the truest madness.

The heart is a bloody thing.

Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life.

shouted. In

pushing in from the edges. My heart raced. A high-pitched ring pulsed in my ears. Searing pain infused my nose and head as if my sinuses had been

What makes great rivalries is when individual or team matchups occur, something's got to be on the line, and usually that's a championship.

October baseball is what it's all about.

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he raps. Every word that he raps, you feel it.

I always enjoy fight scenes and being grubby and bloody and not having to look good. I prefer that very much, as odd as that sounds.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.