Player Fatigue Quotes

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

It's probably better for me to play 40 or 45 games and occasionally be rested and therefore still be full of energy at the end of the season.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season's end is approaching, and we're all pretty physically tired.

Players want to play a lot of rugby. We're walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don't want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.

The rotation system at Bayern makes it nearly impossible to play week after week, even when you're putting in some top performances.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their careers.

I think a lot of times what practice can do for you when guys are playing a lot of minutes, it sometimes takes away a little bit of their sharpness, because they have the puck a lot and all that.

A player needs recovery time, and it isn't possible to recover from one race in an hour.

I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with their clubs.

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

Any player over 40-50 games per season will have moments of fatigue, let alone a 22-year-old who has a lot to learn on how to control games and pace himself throughout 90 minutes.

The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.

During the season, the teams play every third day. That's a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.

For a lot of players, it's not that they don't want to play anymore or that they get tired of it or bored of it. It's that their bodies give out.

Who am I, of course, to judge them, but the Premier League must urgently think about a rest period in a European Championship or World Cup year.

What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.

While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

Not only do you have 16 regular-season games, you also have four preseason games. Then if you make the playoffs, you can have four more games before you get to the Super Bowl. So you can already have 24 games without the 18-game season. And 24 games takes a real toll on somebody's body.

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

Messi never wants to be subbed off, but it's my task to take care of him.

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

The problem is you lose too much energy when you play in the Premier League. Even when you play the team on the bottom, it is difficult.

It is not a problem to sit on the bench: absolutely not. When you have three games in a week, and you don't play, though, you have to think about it.