Hector Bellerin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Great players, they don't get hurt as much as the other players.

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

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

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.

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.

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

We don't want our players getting hurt.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

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

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

Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play.

Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don't necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you're done.

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.

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