Samir Nasri Quotes

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.

With Ajax, I played Mexico in Mexico City, and our players could hardly keep up for half the match.

The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.

I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and was tired of dealing with injuries. I just got tired of playing football, if you want to know the truth, and I was sitting on the floor at my father in-law's house and started to watch pro wrestling. I've watched it for a little bit before, so I thought to myself, 'You know what? I can do that!'

After you win a Premier League, the second year is more difficult.

I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

You must be in supreme physical condition. If your body isn't right, you cannot play in the Premier League.

We're not robots, we're not factory built. We have feelings, we have families and we go through tough times that people don't know about. Sometimes your form isn't good and there's a reason for that. Sometimes the team isn't playing well and you can't quite work out why.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

I chose Chelsea because I spoke with the manager here and when I did that, I felt the capacity of the manager and that is why I made my decision. And of course I like Premier League football and that is why I decided to stay in the Premier League.

I love the English league. I think it's the best in the world, but I have a problem with Christmas and New Year's Day because you have to play.

The Premier league is better with Mourinho.

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

You do what I did to my body, for as long as I did, and it's bound to take its toll.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

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.

Only players can understand what it's like, travelling and playing every three days, it gets on top of you.

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 want to play football at a high level.

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

I think I had a positive development at Chelsea. I was very young when I arrived, only 20, and the problem I had was injuries.

I've had the privilege of playing in our top seven leagues and the main differences when stepping up are organisation, athleticism and decisiveness. Believe me, the gap is even more evident when you achieve the holy grail of the Premier League.