Quotes About Athletics

Those two months I didn't play didn't help me. But injuries are a part of basketball.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

I always say I'm hurting sometimes, have a lot of injuries. But if you win a game, I feel great. But if you lose the game, those injuries, they come up. I don't know how to explain it, winning is such a unique thing.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.

You're going to get little nagging injuries here and there from the game.

Injuries are part of the game for everybody. You have to manage those circumstances as best you can.

You can go on about injuries in this league; those will happen.

Injuries are part of the game; you've got to play through them.

I'm a competitor, and I'm sure a lot of people who don't get to play because of an injury, whether it's their pride or their ego, whatever it is, they want to be out on the field.

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Check my records: you'll find I've never caused a bad injury to a player.

A lot of people are blowing Shogun's fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona.

I was very lucky that I never had any serious injury. But it was the love and passion for the game that got me playing for so long.

The only semi serious injury I have had was when I strained my MCL. But I'm always beat up in some form or another.

I know what it's like to be excited for a big game. I know what it's like to be heartbroken after losing to a rival. I know what it's like to lose a key player to injury.

I had that small injury on my ankle, but I know that I am not playing like I used to play and like I have to play. So I have to keep working and try to play much better.