Rich Froning Jr. Quotes

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

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

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

I am rarely injured.

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

If I have got an injury, I have got an injury. Whenever I want to play for Nigeria, I must be 100 percent, I want to give everything. But if I have got an injury, I don't want to force myself, because I am going to look stupid on the pitch.

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

I've picked up a lot of injuries, and there's been games when I've looked back and watched and thought, 'I could have done this better,' 'I could have done that better.'

I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

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

Dancing is hard on all bodies, but I particularly kept getting injured.

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.

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

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

To be honest with you, it really doesn't get me excited to see anybody get injured.