Quotes About Recovery

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

It's always better for the players being injured to come back to a winning team; it takes pressure off their shoulders.

I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

When you get injured for a long time, it's not nice because you are out of the team and not involved anymore.

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it's really bad.

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.

I've been told that I've shot the ball a lot better since I've been injured, so that's kind of weird.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

Players don't change drastically. Maybe they get more in form if they're a goal scorer, or they get healthier if they've been injured.

There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn't sure what my future in football was.

But when you are an injured footballer, especially when you are out for as long as I was, you find out all about the dark side of the game.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

I tore my MCL and medial and lateral meniscus, too. All in one play and the first time I was really injured.

Yeah, I came back quickly, but I don't think me getting injured the second time necessarily was from coming back too early.

It got injured in 1995 and was operated upon once.

It's one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.

I was injured in the early part of 2000 and spent 10 weeks barely able to walk.

I've been through my fair share of injuries.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.