James Anderson Quotes

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

I can't even remember playing a game without pain.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

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

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

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.

It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

When you have pain, you have pain, and it's always, like, 30 percent there. Of course, there were some games when I was struggling a lot, but there are different solutions to solve it - anti-inflammatory and this kind of thing - so the pain goes away a bit.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.

I want the opportunity to play pain-free.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

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.

Physical pain is temporary.

I have some issues that I don't know if they will become issues. I have some things in my head, I forget things. I can't turn my head a lot or my brain crashes. I have back and wrist pain.

A hundred for England is special and there's a lot of emotion and a lot of hard work involved in getting back on the field. No one sees the hard work and all the time with the ice machines in rehab.

I've been through my fair share of injuries.

I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I'm not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through.