Game Intensity Quotes

To let somebody get 30 points on you, and you feel good because you got 35 on them, that's not good for me, you know what I'm saying? If I get 35, I want him to get 12 or 14 because that means I've done something. I've done my job. I went out there and played hard and did what I had to do.

This is football, man. We all sign up to get hit.

Now you've been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he's saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.

Training and playing are different things. I've noticed it. If you come in and you realise after six minutes that it is tiring, then that is a clear difference to training.

It's in the knockout games that you discover who the great players really are.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

In any football I have played in - and I have played in League One and as an international at the World Cup - the bare minimum is running around and showing the desire for the shirt. Then, the higher you go up the leagues, your football takes control of that.

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms.

When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

Coming off the bench, I'm able to view the game, see how their bigs are playing. And what I bring to the table is energy. The starters go in and run their bigs for a bit. When I check in it's time to punch the clock and play hard.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

It's not like I'm a lineman and no matter what, the game is physical. There's weeks where I get hit a lot and weeks where I don't.

I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.

I don't ever want the players to relax in a game.

It's very physical in the midfield, but I've come into my own now, and I can handle it in there.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

It's a massive difference when you play in front of full stadiums; you can sense the buzz around the players, and it helps us get that extra one or two per cent that may be the difference in games.

Everything in the NBA is sped up. Lanes close much faster than college.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.