Wade Barrett Quotes

I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you've got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can't afford for you to get hurt.

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

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.

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.

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

WWE was pretty wonderful to me because I was able to rehab my foot 100 percent before I was released.

All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

It's always good to hear when players aren't out for as long as you thought they would.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

Every time I sprinted 100 per cent, my hamstring broke. But I knew if I didn't sprint 100 per cent, I could keep on playing, so that's what you do. I was just lucky it was discovered in America and I haven't had one problem since. I feel I can run past people again and that feels nice.

Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.

People really don't understand how hard it is and what it takes to be a WWE Superstar.

I am aware that I have come to the end of my martial times, but training with pain I want no longer. My body is battered by countless trainings. I collected nine operations; the body has become prone to injury.

I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.

MMA makes you sore and tired every day. I wonder what we're going to be like when we're 50 or 60. I wake up some mornings and just say, 'Oh, God.' And then I go scuba diving.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

It's part of the sport, getting hit.

It's a hard game, boxing. You're up every morning running every day, you train in the afternoon, you're dieting, you're up and down in weight and it can wear you down.