Joe Taslim Quotes

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 mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

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 think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

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.

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

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.

Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

While I dealt with my share of injuries throughout my career, I was fortunate to have been healthy for the majority of our run in the 1990s. The same can be said about Michael Jordan.

I was kind of at the turning point in my career with my knee. I was dealing with the struggles of trying to make the transition back on the court consistently and not a game here, then sit a game.

For me, I still wish every day that I could play tennis again. It's such an incredible, wonderful job to have.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

Sports life is very short.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.