James Haskell Quotes

I've been very fortunate that I haven't gotten injured a bunch. I try to take care of myself. I think, too, my size gives me an advantage in some ways.

I will be the first to say when I know I can't fight due to injury, as my long-term health is my number one priority.

I mean, I don't really remember playing a full season ever being 100 percent.

I just feel like I try to get out of each game healthy.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

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

It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.

I have felt in my head that I would like to play, but then you listen to your body and accept it might be better that you do not play every game immediately after an injury.

No matter how badly you play, you want to come out healthy.

If I have got an injury, I have got an injury. Whenever I want to play for Nigeria, I must be 100 percent, I want to give everything. But if I have got an injury, I don't want to force myself, because I am going to look stupid on the pitch.

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

It's just important for me to be healthy and just to take care of my body. Fans will appreciate the sacrifices we make with our bodies but I was just working a little more hurt than I should.

I'm good at keeping my physical health. My brain is not allowed to have injuries, neither is my body.

My whole career, I've never had no serious injuries or no surgeries.

I just feel like it's my job to take care of my body. I play a contact sport, 99.9 percent injury rate. As far as being injury-prone or getting hurt, it's going to happen. But it's my job to take care of my body, come week in and week out.

If you're not taking care of your food, your body, you're not gonna look great.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

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

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.