Quotes About Intensity

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

As an opponent, the fiercest bouts were always against Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a fantastic player.

The only thing that matters to me is to hit my opponent and do whatever it takes to knock him out.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

When I would play in big games at Ohio State, if the Goodyear Blimp was there, you knew it was a big-time game against a big-time opponent.

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

I like to keep things exciting. Every minute of the fight, I'm trying to finish my opponent.

When you're in there with a top-level opponent, it's supposed to be a close, action-packed fight.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even harder against us.

We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.

The big games against big opponents, those are the best games to play in.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

Any opposing gym we go into, I want them to hate me. At the end of the game, I want to be beating their team so bad that they should hate me.

When you are playing against an opposition, you want to go out there and win a game, and for that, you have to be aggressive.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously, like organizing little pieces of paper, cutting out things from magazines, and filing them away.

Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

I have a short time to play this game. I'm trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.