Lucy Walker Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

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.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

I want to leave this sport with a little bit of my brains left.

I fall a lot during training.

In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

You never know what may happen with injuries and suspensions.

I'd hate to see the game I love go away because it is considered too dangerous and parents are scared to allow their kids to play.

Any time you get on the field, there's a possible chance of that happening. I think you're trying to make a play, and there is an inherent risk where you could get blindsided.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

I had 30 years of playing basketball and I came through it unscathed.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as pavement. You're doing acrobatic spins and tricks, 40 feet above pavement, essentially. There's been more accidents since, and there are going to continue to be more accidents, that's the nature of the sport.

We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.

I've seen guys get hurt from strikes. I've seen guys get hurt from flips. It's the risk we take. I feel the fear of getting hurt will get you hurt.

I do wrestle a really high-risk and high-flying style.

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.