Jerome Boateng Quotes

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

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

Of course, I believe injury has stopped me winning more tournaments.

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.

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

One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.

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

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.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

I've had four knee surgeries in my career. I just don't do small injuries. The highs of winning are always balanced out by the lows of being injured and missing games. There was a time when I was out for nearly a year, having already been out for six months with another surgery before that.

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.

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.

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

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

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

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.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

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.