Quotes About Athletics

I influenced the NBA a little bit.

Since childhood, I was ingrained into sports. It plays an important part in my life.

Football is something so ingrained in me, something I love doing and definitely something I want to do.

Any time you get on the field, there's a possible chance of that happening. I think you're trying to make a play, and there is an inherent risk where you could get blindsided.

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.

I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

It is always sad when a player has to drop out injured.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

I don't turn down fights unless I'm injured. Never have. So it's a part of my makeup.

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it's really bad.

Dancing is hard on all bodies, but I particularly kept getting injured.

If you do not have good shoes, you can get injured.

I always like to keep busy, I always say if you're not injured then you should fight.

I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.

For my size, I think I played bigger than my size. I tried to play bigger, which is probably why I got as injured as I did.

I can't play in a way that I am afraid to be injured.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.