Max Scherzer Quotes

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.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

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

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

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.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.