Jack Wilshere Quotes

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

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

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 be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

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

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

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.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

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.

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.

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

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

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

In terms of timing, there's never a good time to get injured.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

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

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

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

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