Amari Cooper Quotes

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

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

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

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

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.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

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.

Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don't necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you're done.

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.

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

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

My whole career, I've never had no serious injuries or no surgeries.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.

A dancer's life is hard - it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career.

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

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.

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

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out.

As a player you have to look after your body because no one else will. I'd rather be proactive than kowtow to everyone and be injured all the time.

It's tough to play with an injury.

These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess.

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.