J. J. Watt Quotes

We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

A player needs recovery time, and it isn't possible to recover from one race in an hour.

This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.

During a packed season, maintaining fitness becomes tough because you can't put too much effort into it. You're constantly monitoring workloads.

Any player over 40-50 games per season will have moments of fatigue, let alone a 22-year-old who has a lot to learn on how to control games and pace himself throughout 90 minutes.

It's always difficult, when you have such a quick turnaround and a long flight, to try to get ready for a game so quickly.

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

It's probably better for me to play 40 or 45 games and occasionally be rested and therefore still be full of energy at the end of the season.

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'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

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.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

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

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

The schedule is tough in tennis.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement.

The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

From a logistical standpoint, I learned about when to peak, when to push, when to recover throughout the season.

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

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.

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

We have to stay in shape to compete against so many great players. You want to give your franchise, your team's owner, the best chance to win every Sunday.