Franck Ribery Quotes

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.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

I'll try to play as long as I can stay healthy.

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

If I feel great and my body feels great and my knee is fine, I should play 30 minutes or more. I definitely have my opinion on that.

I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, 'Don't get your bandage dirty. Don't go outside and throw the ball.' But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.

The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

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.

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.