Julian Edelman Quotes

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

Pain is part of the sport.

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

Regardless of how tough you think you are, regardless of how good you think your chin is, we're all only one connected punch away from being hurt, and you've just got to hope your chin holds up and your body holds up.

It's tough to play with an injury.

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.

I'll try to play as long as I can stay healthy.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.

I am one of those players who has many scars up and down my legs from being kicked, but I know I have a job to do, and beating my opponent is my goal.

The game takes a toll on your body.

In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the people seeking high goals in high places are in Eastern Europe, and they reach their goals because they are willing to suffer more.

As long as I am feeling good I will play football. As long as I am feeling fit, strong and being affective on and off the pitch, I will play the game I love.

I've been hurt every year I played football.

I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.

It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.

Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain't no question about it. Whether it is the shoulder, the back, making the wrong plant when you fall - yeah, you'll feel it. You get right up. You go back to the huddle. You can't show weakness out there. You try not to. You don't want to give a sign.