John McEnroe Quotes

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

Luckily, here in WWE, they have a mega-awesome medical group. They're there at every show. If something is hurting even slightly, they're gonna ice it or something. They take care of us so well.

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.