Michael Laudrup Quotes

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

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

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

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

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.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

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 you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

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

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

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

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

If you have a lot of injuries for a long period, that makes it more normal to bring in new players.

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.