Rob Van Dam Quotes

People should realize my job is not as tough as a forward playing 80 games and getting hit every day.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Sport is healthy, but it can be the opposite of that at the top level. You have so many injuries; you put your body through so much. You wake up at 2 in the morning, and you cannot move.

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

There's going to be wear and tear on your body; that's just the nature of the sport, no matter if you're a rookie or if you're 10 years deep in the league.

I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

I have never needed operations, I have had niggles the same as any other golfer after putting his body through 17 years of travel and a heavy playing schedule. I think I'm actually in pretty good shape considering the amount of hours spent hitting balls and sitting on an aeroplane.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

Rugby takes its toll.

The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that's the fun part. It's the rest of our lives that's the real battle - the ruthless backstage politics, the constant traveling, the endless mental and physical aches and pains.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out.

I'm not going to change the way I work out in the offseason and prepare. I'm not going to change the way I approach the game. I'm not going to change the way I play every day.

If you take guys who have been off who have had very limited opportunity to work out and train and haven't skated in months, you can't just throw them back into games. Everyone's going to get hurt.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.