James Anderson Quotes

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

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

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 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.

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.

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

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

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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.

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

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.

I want the opportunity to play pain-free.

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

I've had injuries before. They are just obstacles to overcome.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

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.

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.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

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

I've had so many injuries.

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.

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.