Sonny Vaccaro Quotes

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that's it.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

We all play football to get money.

I learned that Yao Ming broke his navicular bone like five days before the 2009 draft. From that moment on, all I thought about was going from zero stars to one star. How do you do it?

You're playing football for a living. There aren't many things better than that.

I came into the league in '94.

I'm more than blessed to be able to play a PE sport for money.

I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something for money whereas a guy who was an athlete in college sport then went straight to the pros, he's never had a skill outside of sport.

While I dealt with my share of injuries throughout my career, I was fortunate to have been healthy for the majority of our run in the 1990s. The same can be said about Michael Jordan.

For me, I still wish every day that I could play tennis again. It's such an incredible, wonderful job to have.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

It's an amazing life, don't get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is… is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.

I'm holding out a little hope personally because I want to be back, but this injury could take a year to fully recover. The last thing I want to do is feel like I'm OK, come out early and be vulnerable to further injury.