Quotes About Adversity

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

Yeah, I've had injuries.

I went through the foot injuries, as well as other things, that have kept me grounded.

Dominick Cruz is the unluckiest fighter of all time. I mean the injuries that this guy's had.

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

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

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.

It happened with me in the past that I was not well trained for a reason, like an injury, and I started talking a lot to fool myself, to show everyone that I'm fine, but I was not.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

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

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

All the time I have a small injury or a bigger injury.

Coming off a pretty significant injury for me with my shooting shoulder, I learned a lot about my character.

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

It's tough to play with an injury.

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.

I think whenever you have any kind of injury or challenge, you just have to deal with it the best you can. You have to decide what's important to you and focus on getting back to where you want to be. And enjoy where you are and what your goals and dreams are and just give it 100 percent.

Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just enjoyed coming in every day and playing; then it was taken away from me.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.