Karl Malone Quotes

We don't want our players getting hurt.

There's been a lot talk about football and safety issues. My big thing is the benefits far outweigh the risks.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

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

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

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.

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess.

I don't want to be like these guys having neck surgery, then you got to go have another surgery just to continue to play this game. I love this game but I love myself more.

I'd hate to see the game I love go away because it is considered too dangerous and parents are scared to allow their kids to play.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

I think injuries happen. You can prevent a lot of them, but some of them you can't.

Any time you see your quarterback hurt, your heart drops for a second.

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.

You can't predict injuries. That's one thing you can't do.

When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body's not going to be the same.

These NBA seasons are such a grind; it really takes a toll on your body.