Max Aaron Quotes

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.

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

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

When you are injured - and injured for a while - it is hard. You have to go to the training ground and watch everyone go out to play.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

I wanted to be a world champion.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

I wanted to go to college and play football.

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

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

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.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there's a chance that might not happen, either.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

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

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