Stephanie Rice Quotes

If you have injuries, it's tough.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

I will always have pain. But I exercise as much as I can, and I find that makes a huge difference. And if my body does seize up, I have a pain plan in place. If it escalates, I go back to my doctor.

Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.

Instinctively I know the difference between general pain from bowling, and pain caused by a specific problem.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.

My back is permanently messed up.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.

You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

You manage your injuries if you're serious about fighting.