Quotes About Injury

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

I was never a gym person before 'Game Of Thrones.' The idea of it was a bore to me - and it kind of still is - but I had a problem with my knee, so I can't play sport as much as I'd like to.

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

Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.

While we were shooting 'Baahubali,' I had a knee injury, and a few months later, Prabhas injured his shoulder. Those two injuries meant a break of around five months from the schedule. So around that time, I was doing absolutely nothing, and Neeraj Pandey called me with 'Baby.'

People didn't want to accept that I was injured. I played on a bad knee, a really bad knee, for a long time. I actually put team before me and played when I was hurt, but people still would dog me.

Obviously with a knee injury there are certain protocols that need to happen.

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

A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.

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

Two of my bread and butters are my ankle and knee. That's why I always wore high-tops. I had to protect my ankles no matter if I taped my ankles or wore ankle braces. I gotta protect my ankles. Gotta protect the money maker. That's why I've always rocked the Air Force 1s. Of course, I put in orthotics in there 'cause these joints is flat.

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.

Back in 2014, I injured my left knee badly.

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.

My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it's always hindered me.

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.

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 want to be out there playing but at the same time I know my knee won't allow me to play at my best and to keep my place in the team. I'm hindering myself more than I am helping myself for the future.

I've been in constant pain with my knee injury.

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.