Julius Peppers Quotes

In soccer, you don't want to see anybody get hurt.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

No matter how badly you play, you want to come out healthy.

I think injuries happen. You can prevent a lot of them, but some of them you can't.

I am rarely injured.

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

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

To be honest, I don't care how it went in.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

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

People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

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

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

I've picked up a lot of injuries, and there's been games when I've looked back and watched and thought, 'I could have done this better,' 'I could have done that better.'

I've seen guys get hurt from strikes. I've seen guys get hurt from flips. It's the risk we take. I feel the fear of getting hurt will get you hurt.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.