Michael Ballack Quotes

What gets measured gets improved.

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

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

Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.

You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back.

You look at players who are off form and there's a general disappointment, their confidence goes low and their whole demeanour can change. I've seen it hundreds of times but it's difficult to know what's really going on inside someone's mind.

You're so emotionally connected to the game that it's hard to switch off afterwards. It's a good time to have open and honest conversations about your performance and what you can improve on next time.

Health is probably the No. 1 thing that gets overlooked for a player.

The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.

Sleep plays an important role in overall well-being and especially in recovery during particularly intense training.

I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.

Sleep is important for a comic - like it is for a lot of people.

I want a shot at being an analyst. I love watching 'UFC Tonight.' I'm very critical of all the new fighters they have come on there.

We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right.

When you're captain you get involved in a lot of things. You're trying to get the best out of players and subconsciously, without knowing, it gets to you.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

I remember the days when a footballer who had an issue in his personal life may have been told to grow up and deal with it but in 2019, that approach won't work any more. A manager needs to make sure the problem is solved, as a player will not play at his best unless he is happy in his mind and in the environment he has around him.

Consistency in selection is great but it's a whole lot easier if you've got players who warrant that consistency through their performances.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.