Gilbert Arenas Quotes

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

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

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

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

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

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.

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

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

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 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.

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

It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.

Great players, they don't get hurt as much as the other players.

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

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.

You never want an injury as you're getting ready for the playoffs.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

I've picked up a lot of injuries, and there's been games when I've looked back and watched and thought, 'I could have done this better,' 'I could have done that better.'

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

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

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.