Neil Warnock Quotes

I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. It took me a long time until I regained full confidence in it again and only tried to keep the ball in play at the start of the '09 season.

Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

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 didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

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

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

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess.

Of course, I believe injury has stopped me winning more tournaments.

Every time I sprinted 100 per cent, my hamstring broke. But I knew if I didn't sprint 100 per cent, I could keep on playing, so that's what you do. I was just lucky it was discovered in America and I haven't had one problem since. I feel I can run past people again and that feels nice.

As athletes, we're always trained to play through stuff. And I've played through all types of injuries - ankle sprains, shoulder, whatever - and with the brain it's just different.

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

In my first season after Mancini signed me, I was injured a lot, but when I was fit, he did play me.

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 you want to run the read option with your starting quarterback that's had two knee surgeries, that's on you.

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

I practiced and played a certain way that kept my body limber. That's probably why I never got hurt.

I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.

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

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.

It was very important for me to play winter ball. It was very important for me, my arm, and my whole body.