Jack Wilshere Quotes

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

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

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

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

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.

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

I mean, I don't really remember playing a full season ever being 100 percent.

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

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

We don't want our players getting hurt.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

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

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.

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.