Steph Houghton Quotes

Coming off the back of the World Cup, it is important you get that rest.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

When you're in a fight camp, you're working your body harder than normal and it's important to still look after yourself and to relax.

Since I'm playing so many matches, I just need to rest. Every nap, it's very welcoming.

It is very important to take a break and feel fresh, which we Indian cricketers don't get much of, so we are not used to it.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little.

Resting for me is fitness training.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.

You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt.

Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.