Fernandinho Quotes

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

I see a lot of guys and their stamina is at an all-time low in the fourth quarter, and I feel like mine is still where it was in the first quarter of the game.

I think a tennis match is a marathon. You have to sit down and have food for the next three hours, if not more. And to ask a 15 or 20 or even 25 or 30-year-old to do that, this is not gonna happen.

You need to be mentally and physically very strong to go and perform in Australia.

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

The forehands or backhands don't mean much after three hours.

What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

When you're performing pain never matters.

I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

Even in the heat, I'm able to be there and run and fight, no matter what is happening.

If my body gets tired in the game, it's harder to keep the quality on the ball.

My first few years in the league, I was relying on my athleticism to get me by, because that's what got me to the NBA. The problem with that is, you end up getting really, really tired by February.

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

I'm doing 'Dancing on Ice' and I'm just exhausted.