James Worthy Quotes

Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.

I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured.

We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

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

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.

I don't think you ever feel 100 percent throughout a season. If you ask any player, I don't think they ever feel 100 percent fresh every week.

Sometimes, the fact is that you need to think of your health - because what use is it for Ryan Fraser to try and be a hero for one game, then end up out for six months?

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

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

There is already good organisation at Chelsea, but at Milan, it was about prevention rather than treatment. We want to integrate some of the things we had at Milan here. Some people are surprised when they hear that we solved David Beckham's back problem by fixing his teeth, for example, but we will look at everything.

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

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.

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

If sports science really has a beat on what's healthy for the players, then they need to tell the league how many games that is healthy for players to play and then only play that many games.