Gary Cahill Quotes

I have to work hard. I have to get fitness back. If I get game time - which is always different to training - I have to work hard on my game and get confidence again.

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

The only way you can get match fitness is by playing games.

Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.

Game-time is the most important thing for me. When you're playing week in, week out you have the confidence to show what you're capable of.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy.

I hope to have my players in good physical condition, all players, and then to face all competitions.

If I am at 100 percent fitness, I do not fear any competition for places in the first 11.

I train with young guys in the offseason just to be honest and keep myself sure, to let myself know if I'm ready or will I be ready.

I think the more matches that I play, the better shape I'm going to get in. That's the best type of fitness you can do.

I didn't care about the draft. I didn't want to do the workouts - they put you in two-on-two full-court drills with guards. That's not going to help me.

If I feel great and my body feels great and my knee is fine, I should play 30 minutes or more. I definitely have my opinion on that.

What you see is what you get. I'm the real deal. That's why I can step into the ring after having many months off and not have any rust. I'm still working out, stretching.

I'm always training to be quite honest, but there are those moments when you're a little more out of shape than you should be.

In my view, fitness training isn't that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive edge when just sprinting. The matches are all hard-fought, too.

I need match practice of course, I need minutes in my legs to reach my best form.

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

In Serie A if you have an exceptional physique and you train very well you can destroy any opposing defense.

When you are playing regularly, you feel a lot sharper on the pitch.

Running hills, I try to follow the Jerry Rice routine.

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.

After moving to the Premier League, I've realised that I need to limber up and strengthen my body trunk.

The main aim of pre-season is to get ready for the competitive games and go into those in the best possible fashion on group and individual levels.