Donte DiVincenzo Quotes

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

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

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with the game.

Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we're going to tape up and push through without making it worse.

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it's really bad.

I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I'm not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through.

I don't even remember how many times I've sprained my ankle. I've had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.

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.

Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

Persevering and getting through hardship makes you tough, and at our house we celebrate stitches. As long as we didn't do permanent damage to their spine that's going to have lasting effect, we applaud and celebrate stitches at our house.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

Little injuries are always happening, so you've just got to train through those. You've also got to have the right training partners, people you trust.

As a player you have to look after your body because no one else will. I'd rather be proactive than kowtow to everyone and be injured all the time.

I don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.