Mark Cavendish Quotes

I can only work out for so long before I start to really feel the effects.

I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

Each match is a huge effort from a physical point of view. You can only hit so many balls before your elbow or some part of your body is going to say, 'Hey, don't do that to me.'

Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.

Training for five-round fights is too much for the body.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

I'm not really worried about anybody or anything. I think I have a lot to offer. It's just, with your rookie year, your body, it's just a lot. It may seem foolish, all those dunks and stuff: they look cool, but it takes a toll on your body, for sure.

There's going to be wear and tear on your body; that's just the nature of the sport, no matter if you're a rookie or if you're 10 years deep in the league.

The 200 is tragic! It's my favorite race, but it takes so much out of the body - and it's too much time to think.

It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.

You can't do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

For a lot of players, it's not that they don't want to play anymore or that they get tired of it or bored of it. It's that their bodies give out.

I mean, I don't really remember playing a full season ever being 100 percent.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

I don't think I could do the four or five days a week in the WWE. I feel bad for them.