Quotes About Exhaustion

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

Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.

These NBA seasons are such a grind; it really takes a toll on your body.

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

We've all heard stories about poker players grinding it out for two days straight. Believe me; I've got stories like that of my own. But the bottom line is that these stories usually don't have great endings. That's because the mind starts playing tricks after a marathon poker session, especially after a losing session.

The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!

The Triple Crown was a tough beat, but by the time you get to the last leg of the Triple Crown, you just want it to be over.

I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.

I've been on loads of promotional trips in so many other countries, and most of the time, you just want to go home.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.

Trust me, everybody likes to come forward with me, but they all just tire out.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

How perfect is running? This grand delusion of flight? Away from our demons, ever away, until even the self sobs loose, spins lost in our wake. Perfect, oh yes. And a thing to despise. No distance can win an escape; no speed can outrun this self and all its host of troubles. It's only the sweet exhaustion that follows that we so cherish. An exhaustion so pure it is as close to dying as we can get without actually doing so.

Peace reigned in silence, inside and out, in isolation and exhaustion.