Georges St-Pierre Quotes

All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

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

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run.

It's tough to play with an injury.

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

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

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

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.

I've had so many injuries.

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

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.

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

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.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

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

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.

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.