Jason Kidd Quotes

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

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

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.

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

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

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

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

If you have a lot of injuries for a long period, that makes it more normal to bring in new 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.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run.