Quotes About Commitment

My players have to be competitors before footballers. They don't pull out of tackles in training. It's full-tilt and if we pick up injuries, we pick up injuries. They have to give everything on the pitch and leave it all out there.

You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.

There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

Sometimes people fight with injuries and nobody knows, so it's important for the fans to see what we do to - for everything.

I don't pull out of fights. I fight through injuries. I don't care what the circumstances are.

I just want to play every game, and when I do this, and I'm healthy with no injuries, then the fans can see the way I play.

I have always loved football! Of course, you have sometimes difficult times with injuries, defeats, etc., but this is part of the sport.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

I played until I felt like it. Some have to retire due to injuries or other issues ahead of time. But I played until I was 40 years old.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.

Injuries are part of the game; you've got to play through them.

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

I think whenever you have any kind of injury or challenge, you just have to deal with it the best you can. You have to decide what's important to you and focus on getting back to where you want to be. And enjoy where you are and what your goals and dreams are and just give it 100 percent.

No matter what the circumstances are in our business - travel, politics, injury - you got to be in the game. And to be in the game, you got to work hard, and you have to know your craft.

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.

But I would like to play for sure until I'm 35, if I'm injury free.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.