Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Touring is hard on the body.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.

Travelling doesn't stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.

European football games or evening games seem to take a lot more out of you because you don't sleep that night. And as you get older, it gets worse.

I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired.

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car!

Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.

Usually I'm traveling for tennis, so the most important thing for me is to not get jet lag.

The jet lag really gets to me sometimes and I still haven't found a cure.

Jet lag is tough, to be honest. For me, it's much easier to force yourself to stay awake.

I have played international games two days after travelling around the world. Your body clock is all over the place, and you are waking up at 4 AM. But once a game starts, then your adrenalin kicks in, and you seem to forget the tiredness.

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages.

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.

After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.