James Anderson Quotes

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

At the combine we went through medical exams from every team, the most extensive physicals I've ever had: blood tests, MRIs, heart monitors, everything. Because of my injury teams really paid attention to my lower body.

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.

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.

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.

It's tough to play with an injury.

I'd heard other players talking about dark times when they were trying to get back from bad injuries.

The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

We have physical therapy there now so any fighter with an injury in the UFC can come to Vegas and get treatment every day.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

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.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

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.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

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.

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

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.

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

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

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.