Sports Intensity Quotes

Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

KG is Minnesota basketball, he is the Timberwolves - what he did, just the intensity he brought to the game.

I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.

I don't go flying into tackles and running around 100 mph. That's just not me.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

This is a pretty barbaric game. You can't really let emotions get into the way.

Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.

When it's a clash between two big teams, you know your players will concentrate.

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

I played with the youth national team, I played in some CONCACAF games, and it's always physical; it's always intense.

Every league game is like the World Cup. The passion... intense, the desire for points.

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.