Alexander Ovechkin Quotes

It is always a shame when players are injured.

I've been hurt every year I played football.

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

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

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

I've been through my fair share of injuries.

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.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I've had so many injuries.

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

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

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

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

If you have injuries, it's tough.

I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you're never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It's broken, it's got 16 screws in it. I'm not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.

It's tough to play with an injury.

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

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