Demian Maia Quotes

I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

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

To say a player is past it at 29, 30 isn't right.

I can play until I'm 40. But I won't.

When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

I love any project where I get to push myself and learn new things.

I think some of the best pieces of advice for me was when I talked to some of the great players who have had success in this league how much they emphasized the importance of rest, that you can't just go 100 miles an hour all 12 months of the year every day and just keep going. That is a recipe for burnout.

All I do is challenge the players to push themselves to their limit.

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

I feel like I'm always looking to continue improving myself. I'm always looking to win. I'm super competitive, so going into the Olympics, I feel like that's nothing different.

Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are the main event of WrestleMania 34 because neither one is content, and both are ambitious enough to push the limits of what is now considered their greatest moment, and that's the point that neither one will ever accept. They will never accept the idea that they've peaked as individuals.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.