Louis van Gaal Quotes

On a scale of 1 to 10, I can bring a 10 to any important game.

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

It's always difficult not playing games and that match fitness and sharpness is something you always lack when you don't get that opportunity.

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

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.

Sometimes, when I am not playing in a game, it leaves me feeling very tired when I play in the next one. It is like I haven't trained for a month.

Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still on the upswing? I've played a lot of games, a lot of snaps.

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

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.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

I have good stamina and good endurance.

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

I'm competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I'm at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn't enough for some people?

If you take guys who have been off who have had very limited opportunity to work out and train and haven't skated in months, you can't just throw them back into games. Everyone's going to get hurt.

I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.