Wade Barrett Quotes

I had suffered a multitude of injuries, as most guys in the business do. Most of them came at the end of my career.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

So much of my career was affected by injuries. Not just the well documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things. Injuries hit me hard, and they always seemed to come at key times.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

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

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.

I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you're never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It's broken, it's got 16 screws in it. I'm not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.

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

I've had a lot of injuries.

I am aware that I have come to the end of my martial times, but training with pain I want no longer. My body is battered by countless trainings. I collected nine operations; the body has become prone to injury.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

You can't do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

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

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.