Marouane Fellaini Quotes

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

I still work on it almost every day in the gym. You have to know your body and that also means knowing when it's time to rest. Sometimes the coach will manage me and give me a day off so that I'm right for the weekend.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

Eating cleaner has helped me with recovery, to keep my body in position to play as many minutes as my team needed.

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

I've played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

After a tough match, I'll do an ice bath, and that's really good for recovery because it helps circulation. Sometimes you feel really swollen.

There are a lot of big players and a lot of big teams, but I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

When I was playing week-in week-out, I was playing 46 games a season, and there's nothing better than playing every week.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can't push the sport and yourself if you're always hurt.

It's not easy, but I play with my body, and I can feel how important it is to get 100 percent fit to play. This is an important thing to play in the Premier League.

My head has just been all about wanting to play regular football in the Premier League.

If I'm winning a lot and going deep in a tournament, I don't do a lot of heavy workouts. I'll instead do a lot of short sessions where we focus on functional exercises, with the matches obviously being the major workout for each day.

As players, it's a thin line. You want to recover, but you also gotta get some practice time in.

You must be in supreme physical condition. If your body isn't right, you cannot play in the Premier League.

I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the amount of soft tissue work you need, the amount of dry needling, or the amount of sleep or your nutrition. You also understand that you have to pull back.

I like to look after myself, so that's stretching or ice baths, and as soon as I get home, I just sleep anyway; it's all part of recovery.

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to play in a big league like the English league.

The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

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

When I got the chance to play in the Premier League with Hull City in 2014, I had lived a lot of real life.