Mirai Nagasu Quotes

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my body to recover.' The first thing I thought was that I needed to stay upright. When I went back to Brazil to play, after a few months, my body was perfect.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with 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.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

I've played with sprained ankles before, bruises, stuff like that.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

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.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

I have felt in my head that I would like to play, but then you listen to your body and accept it might be better that you do not play every game immediately after an injury.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

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

I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I'm not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through.

I've had injuries before. They are just obstacles to overcome.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

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.