The season is very long.
You know you're going to have 162 games. You're going to have six months to play this game and playing every day is going to be a grind.
I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
Eighty-two games, it's a long season.
The 2008 season was very long and extremely hard - probably the toughest of my career.
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.
At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.
Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
It's very difficult in England because the season is very long and hard compared to other places. There's not a lot of recovery time at all, not even a break at Christmas. You just have to do your best and get on with it.
You know how things go in football. Seasons are long, and you have to see how things progress.
It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.
Playing 82 games is a haul, and with eight or nine exhibition games, it's a long process. You've got to take care of your body and make sure you're getting your work in and staying healthy throughout the whole season.
Nine games? It's too long.
You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.
You know, it's a long season and hopefully a long career.
That's why it's hardest to win a Premier League instead of a Champions League - because it's over 38 games. You can't play well in every game, but it's about grinding out results.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
Twenty races is a tough season. It's a long year.
It's such a long season, and there's so many games, so many trips, you've got to build habits and be consistent with what you do.
The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.
When you work so much in between starts, you realize how long the season is. It's exciting to look at and be a part of, obviously. It's almost like a challenge, to see how, from start to start, things may feel a little differently.
We want to play a full year, July to July, because that will mean we've been successful.
The season lasts a long time, and we need not only a high-level squad but also a big squad.
It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
