Phil Jones Quotes

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

What you do on the field can only be a positive if you take care of what you need to off the field, and that means recovery and refueling.

I still work on it almost every day in the gym. You have to know your body and that also means knowing when it's time to rest. Sometimes the coach will manage me and give me a day off so that I'm right for the weekend.

I try to take two weeks off after a fight and then get back to working out four or five times a week.

For every player, it is important to be fit and have a good pre-season behind him.

The players who don't look after themselves physically and mentally and enjoy the nights out a bit too much will suffer, the sport is a lot more professional now.

When I look at the great athletes, I think of the Kobes and the LeBrons and the Tom Bradys of the world, obviously they take rests and recover, but they also continue to work, too. Working out and keeping up with that, with your conditioning, is another part of health and keeping your longevity throughout the years.

I like to look after myself, so that's stretching or ice baths, and as soon as I get home, I just sleep anyway; it's all part of recovery.

You need to lift weights and do more resistance training. Get more sleep. I'm the first one who's guilty of not doing that, but I work on it, and I'm aware of it. And drink more water. Drink Propel. You have to hydrate. You simply can't perform at the level you could perform at if you're dehydrated. Period.

Honestly, I just try to take care of my body as much as possible: eating, recovery, just making sure that I'm always on top of staying healthy and making sure my body is 100 percent throughout the season.

If I lose early in the tournament, I can work out and try to improve. When the tournament is done, I'm just trying to get well and work on the recovery for the next day.

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.

Resting for me is fitness training.

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

You have to take care of your body.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.

The best fitness and training advice has to be: Listen to your body.

We can't play if we are ill or not completely fit.

It's important as an athlete to know your body and how things affect it.

Sleep plays an important role in overall well-being and especially in recovery during particularly intense training.

I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.

You've just got to train hard. Conditioning is key, recovery is key. As hard as you work, recovery is just as important. All the soft-tissue work daily, all the things that keep me clean. And you've always got to be aware of what you're eating, what you're putting inside your body. That's key as well.