Marco Chiudinelli Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Anyone who was been injured for a long period can emphasise how happy you are when you are able to be back on the pitch.

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

Nobody comes back from a serious injury and is the same after a month or even three months. You should play in the reserves; you get your muscle back and regain your match rhythm. Psychologically, you need to build your confidence back up and you hope there are no complications. Even in a settled side, it's hard.

When you are injured, you need to strengthen yourself very well to make a comeback very confidently.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

I've had four knee surgeries in my career. I just don't do small injuries. The highs of winning are always balanced out by the lows of being injured and missing games. There was a time when I was out for nearly a year, having already been out for six months with another surgery before that.

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

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

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.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

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.

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

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