Letitia Baldrige Quotes

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

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

It's tough to play with an injury.

I've had a lot of injuries.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

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

I've had so many injuries.

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'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.

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

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

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

If you have injuries, it's tough.

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.

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.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.