Rex Ryan Quotes

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

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

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

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.

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.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

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.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

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

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

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

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

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.

I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.

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.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

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

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.