Shawn Johnson Quotes

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

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

I've played with a lot of injuries.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

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

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

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.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

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

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

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

It's been frustrating for me, as I've been injured a lot, but hopefully, I can get more fitness and get time on the pitch.

It's tough to play with an injury.

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.