Neville Quotes

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.

When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.

I could hardly walk for six months, never mind play football. I was limping for so long. I was walking with crutches - as in, properly walking - after about the first month because I thought it was much better to put my body weight on and build up the strength.

I know my knee's going to heal. I know it's going to get back. I just don't know when.

I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.

It was the force of the ball. It made my foot bone and ankle come together and cracked. I thought I had just twisted my ankle, but it was a clear fracture.

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.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?'

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.

I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.

I break orbital bones.

I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

I think people underestimate when you have a brace on your knee how much that truly restricts you.