Kevin Anderson Quotes

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

I want kids to continue to enjoy our game and benefit from the rewards of playing the ultimate team sport. That's why it's important for young players, parents, and coaches to know about U.S.A. Football's Head Up Football program.

When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.

When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.

I'm not a good spectator; I'm a nightmare when I'm injured and I'm not playing.

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

You've got to make sure the field condition is great for the players, because we're the guys out there running, putting our life on the line, playing hard.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.

You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.

We're professional athletes. I feel like I got treated better in college wrestling. I had a physical therapist on hand at all times, no matter what, when I was in college.

I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.

In soccer, you don't want to see anybody get hurt.

I just don't want people to mistake playing basketball, playing hard with trying to hurt somebody.

I'm 100 percent a byproduct of my sport. I always tell my teammates that I only have muscles where they get to play.