Ronda Rousey Quotes

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

I've landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I've torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.

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

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

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

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

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

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.

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.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

Oh, there's a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I've seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

The game can be quite dangerous when you look at certain injuries, especially head injuries.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

Have I ever left the field with a broken nose, black eye? Yes, numerous times. I've had a broken nose and a few black eyes. It's part and parcel of the game, really.

Injuries are a part of the game.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.