Le'Veon Bell Quotes

This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you're going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.

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

The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

There's been a lot talk about football and safety issues. My big thing is the benefits far outweigh the risks.

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

My philosophy on quarterbacks is, first and foremost, you've got to keep them healthy and on the field.

I understand football is a freaky sport, and injuries happen.

Going out there as a forward can shorten your career somewhat, whereas if you go out as a back, you will be OK.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.

I'd hate to see the game I love go away because it is considered too dangerous and parents are scared to allow their kids to play.

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

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you've got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can't afford for you to get hurt.

Always protecting the players is not good.

I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.

I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.

Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don't necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you're done.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.