Quotes About Intensity

I just play basketball. That's me: all I know is basketball.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

Obviously, I'm a competitor. I think everybody knows that. Everybody knows what I'm about and how I play football.

I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it.

I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

I only like to play football.

My mentality is that I play football to win. You have to do everything you can to win. The most important thing is that you leave nothing out there on the pitch.

When some people play football, they think of it as just a sport. To me, it's everything.

I've always liked the way Southampton play football, high intensity and really aggressive playing. The way they play with the full-backs I'm not going to be sitting back for the whole game, it is going to give me opportunities to get forward and show what I can give in attack.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the entries. After Liszt, that was no longer the case; a conductor was someone who shaped the music in an intense musical way, who played the orchestra as an instrument.

Losing the Ashes was intense and emotional. My personal lack of results and contribution through that series played havoc in my mind.

No player in this league - they might be really, really good and they look like they're playing nonchalant, but they're not.

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

The players on the pitch have the responsibility to run harder, fight harder.

I think fans appreciate players who give everything in a game.

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

My wife gives me a hard time, whether it's playing games with people we don't know too well and I'm intense. I could probably turn off a few people to probably being around me because of that.

Every game is a playoff game.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

I just love playoff basketball.

You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.