Athletic Intensity Quotes

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

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

There's a moment on the arch of a jump, when you are neither rising nor falling. All you can see is the sky. All you can feel is the air and all you can hear is your heartbeat. That is all you are. Muscle and motion. It's called the deadpoint. I live for that.

I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.

Mike Tyson does a lot of things that shows he wants to win. He might hit you after the bell, he might hit you a little low, but he wants to win the fight. I think if he controls himself, he's okay.

When I do get in the game, just getting me going. How do you get me going? If that's running plays or things where I can impact and get going. But once I'm in the flow, I'm in the flow. It's hard to get me out of that.

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man.

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

The intensity and importance of each possession. That's the thing about the NBA that doesn't always translate to television.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

Once I get on the court - I've been on the court with my own brother before and tried to rip his head off, so that shows the kind of competitor I am.

I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.