Neville Quotes

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

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

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

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it's really bad.

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.

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

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.

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.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

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.

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.

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.

All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

There's going to be wear and tear on your body; that's just the nature of the sport, no matter if you're a rookie or if you're 10 years deep in the league.

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

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

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

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

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.