Bum Phillips Quotes

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

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

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've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

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.

But when you are an injured footballer, especially when you are out for as long as I was, you find out all about the dark side of the game.

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.

I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I'd say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.

Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.

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

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.

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.

My toenails are out of my foot because of all the stamps I have received during games. But it's fine. This is the Premier League and the way they play here.

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

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

People should realize my job is not as tough as a forward playing 80 games and getting hit every day.

When Robben joined Chelsea in 2004 nobody realised how good he was. He was seen as an excellent player rather than a world-class one, and he suffered a lot with injuries. In the years since, he has elevated his game.

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.

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.

I can't dwell on having a couple drops. It's going to happen - it's the NFL.