Alastair Cook Quotes

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.

Sometimes you just need a wee bit time away from football to freshen things up.

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

You need balance in your life all-around. When you find that balance and relax and get away from the game a little bit - and when you come back, you just go that much harder.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

Just getting away from the game, getting away from basketball was a good thing for me.

I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.

When I was on the court, I played. When I trained, I trained hard. But as soon as that thing was over, I switched off and enjoyed my life.

I often get very tired but I'll just have a good sleep and a day off and then I'm fine to go again.

Something can be said for quitting for a little while. You can get completely drained as a performer and creator. You have to fill back up.

It's important to take your mind off football; otherwise, you become too obsessed, and you look into things too much.

I worked all day, every day. I thought about Tinder in the shower and dreamed about it at night. It wasn't just my job - it was my life.

I think that was one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to be so focused on soccer that it became my whole life.

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.