Bob Stoops Quotes

I've had broken fingers and still played for Team Canada.

When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.

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.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

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

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

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.

It's football - I would play with seven fingers if I had too, man.

Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury.

Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

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.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

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.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.

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.

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

Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all good. I'm thankful for it. Somebody's got to do it.