Quotes About Injury

Being injured gives you the chance to reflect on the players who play in your position, too. You see things you can do, things you can maybe do better.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

For me, playing hurt was a battle in itself: a mind-over-matter head game I refused to lose. Often, I was barely able to bend my knees or elbows, flex my feet, make a fist, bend forward or turn my head. Heck, it hurt to blink.

I've had five surgeries that could have ended most people's careers. But because of the fact that I'm resilient and have a lot of pride, I refused to let myself go out except on my terms. An injury is not going to take me out.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

Each injury is different regardless of whether it's the same type of injury, so you have to make sure you're doing it right and doing everything like you should so you come back 100% and don't have to go through all of it again.

Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.

In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

A fit player has good and bad times during a season, and you have that in rehab, too.

When you are injured and undergoing rehab, it is important to stay positive and not allow negative thoughts to creep in.

I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.

It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.

Talk about a foot injury, you can't release how you want to, you can't come out of your breaks how you want to.

I think the only bones I haven't broken are my shoulder, hip, and thigh.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

In 2012, I got hit by an IED in Afghanistan.

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.

If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions.

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.