Sports Fatigue Quotes

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

These NBA seasons are such a grind; it really takes a toll on your body.

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

Eighty-two games, it's a long season.

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.

Who am I, of course, to judge them, but the Premier League must urgently think about a rest period in a European Championship or World Cup year.

I just felt like I didn't have to go back to football. Anytime I don't have to hit somebody, I'm all for it.

You can never come back fresher after the all-star break. I always try to do what I do, try to take care of my body, get some weights in, feel a little bit stronger and ready to push through 25 games.

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.

I think every footballer, after 20 years playing football, the first thing that comes to your mind is to relax.

No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

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.

Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.

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

Nine games? It's too long.

It is impossible to play 60 games all season and be in good form all the time.

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

In Sun Valley, people play tennis and then go for a hike. You should be too tired to go for a hike!