Claudio Reyna Quotes

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.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

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.

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.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

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

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

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. It took me a long time until I regained full confidence in it again and only tried to keep the ball in play at the start of the '09 season.

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Top athletes are like warriors.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

I always wanted to play against the best.

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

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.

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.