Petr Cech Quotes

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

I think about the next season right away.

A break in the middle of the season is good for everybody.

You don't want to hit your peak until late in the season.

During the season, the teams play every third day. That's a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.

Every coach in every sport, one of their larger concerns is the balance between work and rest. We all think about it all the time.

I think every partner in every situation is completely different and I think you have to adjust your teaching technique, your choreography and how you're going to approach the season in general.

When I look at a season, and it's all said and done, and the thing I look for is, first off, did my team win?

To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

A player needs recovery time, and it isn't possible to recover from one race in an hour.

Recovery after hard work is key for any athlete.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

I always wanted to score goals, but sometimes I've scored and been terrible and other times I felt I played well and didn't score. I looked at the statsheet the season where I scored 27 goals and I had one assist and was frustrated.

We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

At the end of the season, I normally get some time off training and can go on vacation and enjoy myself.

I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off.

All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.

Even the soldiers need a break sometimes.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

I’m concerned that if one of those two areas doesn’t play up to par – if they give up some points or they can’t run the football – and it gets stuck on Russell Wilson’s shoulders…if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, that’s where I worry.

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.