Randy Orton Quotes

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

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

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.

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.

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.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

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.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

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.

Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run.

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with the game.

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

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

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

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.

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.

It's tough to play with an injury.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it's really bad.