Quotes About Injury

It drove me crazy, Scotland. It was cold. It was abuse. It was snowing and everything. I was so cold that one day I faked an injury to go to the locker room.

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.

It was especially tough following my shoulder injury. I was able to play again after three months out, but it wasn't the same Boateng. I had the feeling I was in another body.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn't for football I would have played rugby, if it wasn't rugby it would have been basketball and I would have just gone through all the sports.

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.

Most people should not do aerobic exercises for more than 30 minutes, because after that your chances of injury increase.

I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

I feel I have experienced pretty much everything I can in football, winning, losing, the injury side and all the set-backs.

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.

I was very lucky that I never had any serious injury. But it was the love and passion for the game that got me playing for so long.

The initial thought is like, 'Damn. Most guys used to retire after the Achilles injury.' Nobody really but Dominique Wilkins has come back to be the same person as he used to be or better; but now, more and more guys come back and they're healthy.

The only semi serious injury I have had was when I strained my MCL. But I'm always beat up in some form or another.

I know what it's like to be excited for a big game. I know what it's like to be heartbroken after losing to a rival. I know what it's like to lose a key player to injury.

I had that small injury on my ankle, but I know that I am not playing like I used to play and like I have to play. So I have to keep working and try to play much better.

I think that's a big challenge in the NBA: How quickly can you adapt? Because things always change in the league - whether it's trade, free agency, an injury, you have to adapt quickly.

Any time somebody goes through a major injury you feel for him and also what I've been through, I know firsthand what it's like.

Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that's what I try and do.