Katarina Witt Quotes

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.

I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.

But I don't see myself as someone who needs to be managed or has to worry about injuries.

I am a very simple guy. Of course, popularity matters a lot, but for me, my health and family come first.

My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!

As you get older, we have more opportunities, more things going on in our lives that we take it away from basketball and our bodies. If you continue to put the same energy into your body, into your craft, I think you'll be all right.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

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

When I had those injuries in college, I had all of these conversations with coaches about protecting myself. It was a constant internal struggle for me.

If my biggest problem in life was to be healthy, I'd be incredibly bored.

Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks - one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.

I consider myself to be one of the really, really fortunate ones to have gotten out of the game as healthy as I did.

You can be an astronaut, knowing it can be super dangerous but understand intuitively what the risk issues are. Not having the same usable knowledge about the risk of football, or any line of work, doesn't work.

It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

There comes a time in your life - I'm healthy and happy, and I've been fortunate - you've got to prioritize things.

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

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