Sepp Blatter Quotes

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.

You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.

The NFL, as compared to the NBA, it's so physical and so emotional almost every play.

I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.

It's tough to put that in perspective, playing in back-to-back-to-back Super Bowls.

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.

The World Cup is a tournament that practically does not allow errors, especially in the final.

London derbies are that little bit more special; there's that little bit more feeling.

I may not have played men's football, but I've been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I've been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I'd been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure's on.

Every young lad's dream is to play for England, but when you get the chance, there's bound to be pressure and a few nerves.

Playing for relegation and livelihoods and people's jobs - that's pressure. Being at the top of the table, we should be enjoying it.

Once you get to the tournament, it's like, win or go home.

It's obviously very tough for any team to lose on penalties.

As a player, you never want a penalty shoot-out, because it is a lottery to some extent. You'd rather win in 90 minutes.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.