Quotes About Patience

I was injured many times, but life is like this, and I have to accept this.

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Injuries are horrible for every player.

I tend to hold on to injuries a lot longer than others.

I've had a lot of injuries. I had to learn a lot. Despite everything, I still have confidence.

When you come off of injuries, you don't want to rush things.

Those two months I didn't play didn't help me. But injuries are a part of basketball.

I am a naturally big guy, but I cannot rush my conditioning, otherwise trying too much too quickly could result in injuries.

Injuries are part of the job.

You can understand why it is difficult for the players who have long-term injuries when they have to watch the boys going out training every day.

I spent three seasons at Benfica looking to be in the first eleven. Sometimes I got in and sometimes I didn't. Sometimes injuries denied me. Sometimes the strikers who were in my position, they were scoring and scoring so it was difficult to play.

It's the same with most injuries, different players take different amounts of time.

You never know what could happen with injuries.

I went through the foot injuries, as well as other things, that have kept me grounded.

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.