Michael Essien Quotes

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

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

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

I can sleep anywhere from eight hours to 12 hours - but then I can also go on no sleep.

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

Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.

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 get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the 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 would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

I don't need much sleep.

I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.

I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

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 get very, very little sleep.

I generally sleep about four hours.

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

I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.

I've learned to live without sleep.

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 don't get a lot of sleep.