Matthew Walker Quotes

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.

Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.

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.

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 typically get 7 to 8 hours, but I'm a 12-plus-hour sleeper. I need to go into hibernation once a week to refuel.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

I tend to sleep a lot.

Some people seem to survive on very little sleep but I am definitely not one of them.

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

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.

People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.

I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

I wake up around 8 A.M., which isn't too bad at all. I usually try to get to bed at 10 or 10:30. For a while I tried to see how my recovery was with just eight hours of sleep. And sometimes, that can be fine. But I like getting nine or more hours. I feel like I can wake up on my own if I've gotten nine hours.