Athlete Fatigue Quotes

After my time with a certain NFL team, I wanted to retire.

Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.

I don't want to play anymore. I'm tired of football but also tired of people who work in football.

A life of a sportsperson is approximately 14-15 years long and fatigue will be a part of it, but they have to manage that.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

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

This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.

When I was in Europe maybe you are tired for all year - playing, training, training, training.

It's a must to continue getting positive results and to give playing time to as many players as possible. This way we also administrate our energy levels.

If the NFL wants to change the season to 17 games they should ask me, and I say no. Because my body was hurting and I needed that break.

In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.

This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.

I think we would all prefer to have a slightly shorter regular season with less back-to-back games. This would seem to help put out a better product, and it could also possibly help with injury prevention from over-use injuries.