Ricochet Quotes

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

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.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.

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

We don't want our players getting hurt.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

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

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

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.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

I have felt in my head that I would like to play, but then you listen to your body and accept it might be better that you do not play every game immediately after an injury.

We're professional athletes. I feel like I got treated better in college wrestling. I had a physical therapist on hand at all times, no matter what, when I was in college.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

I mean, I don't really remember playing a full season ever being 100 percent.

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

I just feel like it's my job to take care of my body. I play a contact sport, 99.9 percent injury rate. As far as being injury-prone or getting hurt, it's going to happen. But it's my job to take care of my body, come week in and week out.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

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