Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

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.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we're going to tape up and push through without making it worse.

One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.

The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.

Every football player has their own journey and unfortunately my injuries were out of my hands. There wasn't much I could have done about that except rehab to the best of my ability which I did.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

The work I do with my physiotherapist has been instrumental in keeping me healthy, and it's a big reason why I'm able to continue to improve my game.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

I never had any major surgeries or anything like that. I've had a few career-threatening injuries, but I bounced back from them.

The person who's had the biggest impact on my career is Rick Celebrini, the physiotherapist.

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

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

It's been frustrating for me, as I've been injured a lot, but hopefully, I can get more fitness and get time on the pitch.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

I'd heard other players talking about dark times when they were trying to get back from bad injuries.