Brooke Shields Quotes

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 struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. It took me a long time until I regained full confidence in it again and only tried to keep the ball in play at the start of the '09 season.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

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.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.

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.

Each injury is different regardless of whether it's the same type of injury, so you have to make sure you're doing it right and doing everything like you should so you come back 100% and don't have to go through all of it again.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

When you come off of injuries, you don't want to rush things.

Any time you're recovering from an injury, your main focus is trying to get back into shape, really just getting healthy again.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

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.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

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.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

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.

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

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.