Marco Chiudinelli Quotes

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.

I went from being very athletic, one of the best guards in the NBA, to barely making it. No speed, no agility. I had to change how I played because I couldn't exercise or train because my knee constantly hurt.

The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

So much of my career was affected by injuries. Not just the well documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things. Injuries hit me hard, and they always seemed to come at key times.

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

We have physical therapy there now so any fighter with an injury in the UFC can come to Vegas and get treatment every day.

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.

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.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

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.

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

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

I've played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.

I would just like to learn to control my limbs.

I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you're never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It's broken, it's got 16 screws in it. I'm not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

Being injured, coming back, playing a few games, trying to get your fitness back, getting injured again - you don't get a chance to prove what you can do.

I'd heard other players talking about dark times when they were trying to get back from bad injuries.