David Haye Quotes

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my body to recover.' The first thing I thought was that I needed to stay upright. When I went back to Brazil to play, after a few months, my body was perfect.

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.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

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.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

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.

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

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.

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

I want the opportunity to play pain-free.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward.

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.

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.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

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

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

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

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.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.