Rob Gronkowski Quotes

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

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

It's hard to see a player go down and it's hard to see him get hurt.

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

I still play a bit of tennis, but only a knockabout to help with my recovery after a game.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.