Shana Alexander Quotes

If you see someone on a plane with an eye mask, sleeping, that's probably me, because that's pretty much where I live.

Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I'll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I'll sleep through the whole flight.

Usually I'm traveling for tennis, so the most important thing for me is to not get jet lag.

We are constantly traveling from one place to another, dealing with hotels, time zones, jet lag and all those things.

After a two-hour session in the gym, you can't then go out and be up for looking for trouble, you just want to eat and sleep.

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.

I travel so much that when I'm not traveling, I'm just kind of curled up in a ball here, not wanting to leave or see anyone.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

My best advice for jet lag is to sleep as much as you can on a plane, no matter what time it is. Then, when you arrive at your destination, do some sort of physical activity.

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.

I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, 'I don't want them, because I'm sick of flying!'

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

It's always difficult, when you have such a quick turnaround and a long flight, to try to get ready for a game so quickly.

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

It's very important to be rested.

We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.

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

I often get very tired but I'll just have a good sleep and a day off and then I'm fine to go again.

I need to be professional, rest, look after myself, and sleep a lot.

On my first flight, I don't know if maybe it's a function of time, or if I was less stressed on my second flight, but just being able to tell what part of the planet we were flying over by the reflected light coming through the window - that was pretty special.

I like to look after myself, so that's stretching or ice baths, and as soon as I get home, I just sleep anyway; it's all part of recovery.

Traveling is the worst for skin, and it shows instantly. Once you're working non-stop, you can instantly see it.

I don't sleep well when I'm traveling, so there's nothing I like more than getting in my own bed.

You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.

You have to get your rest and have your recovery time.