Ric Flair Quotes

I can't keep playing 10-11 months a year and keep being sharp after 15 years of international cricket.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

I'm a big fan of not working.

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

When I was in Europe maybe you are tired for all year - playing, training, training, training.

Being a wrestler, it can get rough in terms of your mindset, just having that mentality embedded in you where you just wanna go, go, go, 100 miles per hour, always redlining your body and never actually taking the time out to let your body recover the right way. As I got older, I started to realized that less sometimes is more.

I think I train too hard.

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

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.

Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.

If you train 12 months a year, you won't have any strength for the important games.

When you've only got two days between games the recovery process is key.

A lot of athletes want to have a break, but they don't do it.

Before the Roy Jones fight, I knew I was going to retire because I couldn't train, my hands had gone, and the hunger had gone.

I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.

A life of a sportsperson is approximately 14-15 years long and fatigue will be a part of it, but they have to manage that.

I had a shoulder injury and the pandemic helped me take some time off to recover 100 percent, and the UFC took some time off, too.

I was still part of that trend where it was see how low you can get, get as small as you can get, be the biggest guy in your weight class, and it started to burn me out.

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?

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

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.

These NBA seasons are such a grind; it really takes a toll on your body.

Once our season finishes in November, a lot of players maybe take a couple of weeks off and start training for the next year. You often usually have only a little time to work on your game and stuff.