Shawn Johnson Quotes

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

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.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

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

My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.

Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

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.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

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.

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's never fun to be injured; it's always boring being on the side. You want to go back to help the team and to be able to play.

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I've been told that I've shot the ball a lot better since I've been injured, so that's kind of weird.

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.