Alphonso Davies Quotes

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.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

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

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

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.

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

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

I don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.

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.

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

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

Working out is my way of saying to cancer, 'You're trying to invade my body; you're trying to take me away from my daughters, but I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to hit harder than you.'

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 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.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

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 get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

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.

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

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

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