Frances Tiafoe Quotes

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

To me, nothing is more fun than being in that ring. That ring is just my heart; it's my passion.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.

Great matches are necessary, and everybody loves to watch a great match.

I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that's why people call me the 'King of Strong Style.'

It's football. There's emotions.

We're not just fighters, we're entertainers.

We're not telling you we're out there fighting each other. We're going out there to entertain you.

I don't watch sports through the eyes of a stats nerd or an anger monger. I truly love stories and characters and the flash and the sexiness of it all.

The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.

Football is a great environment for a movie because there is such passion for it and so much adrenaline.

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.