Robert Whittaker Quotes

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

I work myself into the ground.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

With 'Strictly,' I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.