Retief Goosen Quotes

Dancing is hard on all bodies, but I particularly kept getting injured.

I can't dictate how I play because I'm injured. I've got to go out there and still play.

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

While I dealt with my share of injuries throughout my career, I was fortunate to have been healthy for the majority of our run in the 1990s. The same can be said about Michael Jordan.

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

If you see me when I first burst onto the scene, you see how quickly I could turn for a big lad and how fast I was up and down the pitch. Then I started picking and choosing my time to go forwards because I was scared of my hamstring going or my knee not dealing with it.

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.

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

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

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.

You never want an injury as you're getting ready for the playoffs.

I work hard in the offseason for that situation - for injury prevention.

If I have got an injury, I have got an injury. Whenever I want to play for Nigeria, I must be 100 percent, I want to give everything. But if I have got an injury, I don't want to force myself, because I am going to look stupid on the pitch.

No one is immune to needing to sit or needing to go down at the right time, and you want to give guys a chance.

I've picked up a lot of injuries, and there's been games when I've looked back and watched and thought, 'I could have done this better,' 'I could have done that better.'