Quotes About Injury

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

I don't want anyone to get injured. It's a competition: you want to play against the best teams and the best players.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

I had a 180-degree tear around my shoulder, my AC joint needed stabilising and a tear in my rotator cuff.

You're using the same body parts over and over again, eventually there will be wear and tear.

Sixteen, 17 games in a season is a lot of wear and tear on the body, especially for guys who don't come out when they're playing.

In judo, you get your arm broke. You get choked. You can tear your ACL.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.

I take magnesium to prevent cramps. A few years back, I suffered from hamstring tears, and part of that can be to do with muscle cramping, and then pushing the muscle at that point. I also take a fish oil supplement.

At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.

I didn't fracture my neck, I didn't break it, but technically it's actually worse. The ligament holding the C2 ruptured, so my disc hit my spinal cord.

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

I look at some kids and they head the ball with the top of the head and their technique is all wrong, therefore the pressure that it's putting on the brain is a lot more.

Ever since my early teens, I've tried to swing the driver very fast. Back then, it was as fast as I could. But now that I'm 24, I'm working to dial back some of that speed, knowing I have an extra gear if needed. The goal is to protect myself from injuries down the road - especially to my back.