Prince Fielder Quotes

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.

I barely get any time for myself.

There is too much cricket being played. You need time away to get your mind in order to reach the optimum level.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that's something we like to do. Like I said, it's a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.

No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

I am pretty good about taking breaks. I know when it's time to step aside and chill out.

I work until beer o'clock.

It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'