Quotes About Rest

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

I typically get 7 to 8 hours, but I'm a 12-plus-hour sleeper. I need to go into hibernation once a week to refuel.

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

I usually never sleep in past 10, unless it's the weekend and I had a night out with my friends, because I like to start my day.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they're going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they're not bringing their full strength to the table.

On a perfect weekend, I'll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I'll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.

Obviously you've got to take some time to go out, but just not every weekend!

We go to bed at 8 o'clock at night, even on the weekend, just because that's our schedule.

I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.

I am such that person that, when I'm working, I'm like, 'Oh, what I wouldn't give for a weekend off!' And then, as soon as I have more that 18 hours without anything to do, I start shaking. It's really funny.

Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.

In the world of poker, it's not heroic to try to function on a couple hours of sleep.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

I like laying by the pool but I do tend to get a bit bored after a couple of days chilling out.

Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.

I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.

I want more of an opportunity to do nothing, and I mean that in a positive way.

I don't travel without a sleep mask or Post Its!

I would never party or hang out with the actors post my shoot. I would head back home and rather watch TV.

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

I am a couch potato!

From early on in my career, I was always challenged to create things. Early in my career, I created 'ground and pound.' When I fought Royce Grace the second time, I developed that: stay on guard, follow the hips, press the legs down, press the hips down. When he rested, I ground and pounded him.

If I'm allowed it, I'm really looking forward to a little time on the couch and a little time on a beach in Brazil.