Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

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.

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

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

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

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

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 so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

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.

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

When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my body to recover.' The first thing I thought was that I needed to stay upright. When I went back to Brazil to play, after a few months, my body was perfect.

I don't even remember how many times I've sprained my ankle. I've had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.

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.

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

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

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

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

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.