Quotes About Intensity

I'm about great competition. That's why I can have a great smile beforehand and connect with the crowd, and then, when I get in the ring, I flip that switch.

The one bad thing sometimes when you switch 1 through 5, guys think it's easier and they relax. You have to be just as aggressive. If we're going to switch 1 through 5 we got to meet that point of entry at the ball and be physical.

People get confused with athletes, especially ultimate competitors. They think they are the same on and off the field. Once you see me on the field, I am a different person. I have a switch I can flip on and off.

When I'm playing football I'm switched off to everything else - it frees my mind.

You can't feel your way into an Ashes series, you have to be switched on from ball one. That's just me in a nutshell.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Adrenaline, swords - you just get off on it.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

I always knowed love was somethin' powerful, Khan, but I didn't never know jist how unbeatable it is. You cain't control it, boy. Cain't love jist a little bit like I reckoned. Thur ain't no measurements when it comes to love. Either you love or you don't.

coup de foudre. A bolt of lightning

Shane felt a jolt of heat, a desire that threatened to overwhelm rational thought. And perhaps for the moment that was all right.

I can't stand these guys who go into a game and can't wait to shake hands when the game is over, you know, nice game, all that.... For me, back in those days, when we lost, we got out of there. We're not congratulating them, we're figuring out, if we play them again, what are we gonna do to beat the hell out of them.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.

discipline comme tu saignes!

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

The passions smothered by modem civilization are doubly ferocious when awakened

had to gulp the coffee, and it was as hot as hell's dishwater.

He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.

Putting his mouth close to her ear, he said, "I'm going to ride you raw, baby, but you won't care. It's going to feel so good, all you'll be able to think about is getting me back inside you. Keeping me here, packed up tight and deep, screwing into you so hard you go hoarse from your screams . . .