Casey Stengel Quotes

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

It's tough to play with an injury.

I'm really interested in sports medicine.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

It's hard to see a player go down and it's hard to see him get hurt.

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

I've been hurt every year I played football.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.

The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up