Jamal Murray Quotes

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.

When I was in Europe maybe you are tired for all year - playing, training, training, training.

Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

During a packed season, maintaining fitness becomes tough because you can't put too much effort into it. You're constantly monitoring workloads.

As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.

I have always said that if I get a run of games and stay fit I know what I am capable of.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

Being a wrestler, it can get rough in terms of your mindset, just having that mentality embedded in you where you just wanna go, go, go, 100 miles per hour, always redlining your body and never actually taking the time out to let your body recover the right way. As I got older, I started to realized that less sometimes is more.

If you train 12 months a year, you won't have any strength for the important games.

I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.

I can't keep playing 10-11 months a year and keep being sharp after 15 years of international cricket.

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

You get mentally fatigued and you get physically fatigued, too. Usually that's when bad things happen on the ice and then you're more at risk for injury.

Certain players need twice the recovery time of others because they run much more - not because they put in more effort but because they're playing different positions.

Regardless of how I feel, I always push through all of my workouts before I get ready for the game, because even though I might not like it then, even though I might be a little tired or fatigued, in the long run, it pays off.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

No matter whether you're hurting or it's just a precaution, you gotta eat right, make sure that you're protecting your body because 82 games and all those road trips - it's going to be a lot.

I'm always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it's over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.

I didn't know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games... Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

I think I'm one of the hardest-training fighters in the world.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

You do have to fight different when you might have to fight three times in one night. I really like fighting just one time a night, this lets you do more things.