Michael Strahan Quotes

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

I'm not a workaholic!

I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much.

When you're working so much, it's so hard. When you do have time off, or when I had time off, rather than going out and seeing loads of people and being really sociable, I was always quite a homebody.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I am tired of hustling.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.