David Moyes Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

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.

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

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

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

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

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

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.

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.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

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

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.

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

No matter how badly you play, you want to come out healthy.

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

I think injuries happen. You can prevent a lot of them, but some of them you can't.

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

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

I mean, I don't really remember playing a full season ever being 100 percent.