Lucy Bronze Quotes

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.

It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

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

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

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

I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. It took me a long time until I regained full confidence in it again and only tried to keep the ball in play at the start of the '09 season.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

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

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

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.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

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.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

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 never fun to be injured; it's always boring being on the side. You want to go back to help the team and to be able to play.