Emre Can Quotes

It's always difficult not playing games and that match fitness and sharpness is something you always lack when you don't get that opportunity.

I don't need to practise. The only thing I need to do is build up my match fitness.

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Fitness of a top-class squash player is very important, and talent only can't do the job. They have to get training regularly for at least eight hours a day so that they could put some good show in a two-hour match.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

The double sessions are tough. The manager wants us to get fit, wants us to work hard. And that's because the Premier League is so tough. We need it. Something we have to do.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

Every player wants to play more than 45 minutes, but it's the decision of the coach. You have to work hard.

My job is to keep my players fit and fresh for the important games.

Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.