Cobi Jones Quotes

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

In soccer, you don't want to see anybody get hurt.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.

Injuries are a part of the game.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

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

In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.

To be honest with you, it really doesn't get me excited to see anybody get injured.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

I think injuries happen. You can prevent a lot of them, but some of them you can't.

So much of my career was affected by injuries. Not just the well documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things. Injuries hit me hard, and they always seemed to come at key times.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.