Trent Dilfer Quotes

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.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

The most important thing is that Spain have a good team no matter who plays. It is always nice to see your name spoken but the important thing is that the national team does well. But having good players for every position is important because there are always injuries, drops of form.

That's one of the things with a championship-caliber team, is how it deals with injuries.

The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run.

You never know what may happen with injuries and suspensions.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

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

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

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

When you look at the best teams, the teams that make a run at it, they're the healthiest teams.

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

Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.

Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play.

You always have competition and great players who can play. The winner in that case is Paris Saint-Germain. With great players, even if a player is unavailable, another can come in and make the difference.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn't play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.

If you have a lot of injuries for a long period, that makes it more normal to bring in new players.

Our schedule is intense. We do this for five nights a week, so injuries can happen very easily with the demands of the job. It's just the nature of what we do and sports in general.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

I've talked to Frank Gore, Willis McGahee - different guys who had similar injuries to me. Those guys have been great mentors to me and kept me motivated.