Matthew Walker Quotes

Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

I tend to sleep a lot.

I just try to get as much sleep as I can when I'm not working.

I need my sleep.

I try to get eight or nine hours of sleep a night, and if I don't, I'll make sure to take a nap.

I really rely on sleep, and some people call me 'The Bear' for my hibernating.

Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

I'm the nap champion.

Since I'm playing so many matches, I just need to rest. Every nap, it's very welcoming.

I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.

I don't sleep. I nap.

Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.