Matthew Walker Quotes

I get very, very little sleep.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.

I have always had disrupted, broken sleep.

I don't get a lot of sleep.

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

I don't need much sleep.

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Sunday I try to make up for some sleep I lost the week before and bank some for the next week.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you're not sleeping, you're not recovering. And if you're going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I'm up at 5:30 the next day.

I usually sleep four or five hours, but when you are training, you need more than that.

I sleep 14 hours a day. That helps me get the energy you see on the pitch.

Whether I get four hours of sleep or eight, I always feel well-rested.

I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline.

Sleep has been provided by nature to do the body's healing work, and it takes seven or eight hours for this process to happen. Commit to getting at least seven to eight hours of good quality sleep every night to keep your body and hormones in balance.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

I can't even sleep in. My body won't let me.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.