Jaap Stam Quotes

There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I'm not going to lie. I'd see black, but I'm still looking for the puck. Where's the play going? I'm going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I'm going to get up, and I'm going to do the next jump.

I've been injured where you can't play. But if I'm able to get up and move around, I'm not coming off the field.

I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible, I don’t know if you fully understand that I have just been shot. But it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!

I've had broken fingers and still played for Team Canada.

You look at someone like Neil Wagner - he's got a big heart, a big engine, and keeps running. And that's what you want, you want guys who, time and time again, want to be putting themselves in that position, to keep wanting to create chances and keep trying to change the game.

After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping playing football.

I am one of those players who has many scars up and down my legs from being kicked, but I know I have a job to do, and beating my opponent is my goal.

Some of my best tackles were the most dangerous!

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

Even in high school, when I had injuries, I tried to play with them. When I shouldn't have worked out, I worked out.

I've even fought with a broken hand, against Brian Magee.

Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain't no question about it. Whether it is the shoulder, the back, making the wrong plant when you fall - yeah, you'll feel it. You get right up. You go back to the huddle. You can't show weakness out there. You try not to. You don't want to give a sign.

Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury.

Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.

People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

The essence of sport is courage.