Quotes About Athletics

I'm confident in Kings MMA.

This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.

If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.

In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.

I had two big injuries, one in my back my rookie year and when I was in Denver, my knee.

I am into coaching and punditry, but I do miss being able to run around and kick a football which I can't do because of my knee. I had always been alright but it plagued my last season at Reading.

If I feel great and my body feels great and my knee is fine, I should play 30 minutes or more. I definitely have my opinion on that.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

You can play with a brain that is injured - you can't play with an injured knee. That's the problem.

A knee injury could put you out for a season. A concussion, you may miss a game or two. Huge difference.

But I'm not going to let my knee alter anything I do in the ring. My move set is part of what makes me unique and there's no way I'm going to throw that away out of fear.

My knee is screwed. I had the meniscus cut out.

If I never had this knee injury I would've been on the field and I probably would've been feeling out of shape and that I've got to work even harder. I'd be taking shots to the chest. I could've died on the field.

After my last fight with Woodley, I ended up hurting my knee so I was out for almost six months.

In the late '90s and early 2000s, basketball was more about making your defender look stupid than scoring. Seriously. You could miss every layup, so long as you turned an ankle or buckled a knee.

In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.

I realized that if I could shed some extra weight, it would make a huge difference for my knee.

My two years in Boston were very difficult to deal with, especially when you know that you still can play. But my knee was causing so much problems.

As an average hitter myself, I lacked that true back knee drive.

I had ACL, MCL, and meniscus injuries on my right knee.

The worst injury I've ever had was a knee in the back when I was 20 or 21, in training at Reading. I couldn't sit down or lie down for a week. I just lay on my front for a week.

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.