Adam Vinatieri Quotes

Great players, they don't get hurt as much as the other players.

Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

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.

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.

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

You've got to be careful of guys trying to chop-block you. You know, running backs, the receivers. You've got to just hope that your knees are fine and you can avoid those chop blocks.

I haven't been injured at all. It's just one of those things which does happen in football.

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.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.

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

I understand football is a freaky sport, and injuries happen.

You never want an injury as you're getting ready for the playoffs.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

If I have got an injury, I have got an injury. Whenever I want to play for Nigeria, I must be 100 percent, I want to give everything. But if I have got an injury, I don't want to force myself, because I am going to look stupid on the pitch.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

I wouldn't let my children play football.

In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.

I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.