Kevin Pietersen Quotes

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

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

The game can be quite dangerous when you look at certain injuries, especially head injuries.

I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn't figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point.

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

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

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.

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.

But I do hope that medicine continues to improve and, in 10 years maybe, they'll be able to fix my body better than they did for the poor guys who are crippled up from playing in the NFL in the '60s and the '70s.

Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.

A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.

I don't want to be like these guys having neck surgery, then you got to go have another surgery just to continue to play this game. I love this game but I love myself more.

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.