Bob Paisley Quotes

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

Every football player has their own journey and unfortunately my injuries were out of my hands. There wasn't much I could have done about that except rehab to the best of my ability which I did.

I've had a lot of injuries.

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.

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

So much of my career was affected by injuries. Not just the well documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things. Injuries hit me hard, and they always seemed to come at key times.

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

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

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

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.

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.

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.