Kevin Pietersen Quotes

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

It's never fun to be injured; it's always boring being on the side. You want to go back to help the team and to be able to play.

It's tough to play with an injury.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. It took me a long time until I regained full confidence in it again and only tried to keep the ball in play at the start of the '09 season.

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

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

I've had so many injuries.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

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.

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.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.

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

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

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

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

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