Alexander Gustafsson Quotes

It's tough to play with an injury.

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

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

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

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.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

The lighter I am going into a fight, the more likely I am to get ill.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

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.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

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

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

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.

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.