Athletic Risk Quotes

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

People say I take too many risks. But the fact is, there is risk involved in every shot. You can get out trying to defend a ball as well.

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.

Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.

If you don't like to be hit, you're in the wrong sport.

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

I've been hurt every year I played football.

When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing. You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question.

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.

I take a lot of risks in the ring.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.

Football is an awesome sport, but it's also a violent sport, and that's why all of us love it. We know what we checked in for, and at seven years of age, that's what I wanted to do with my life, and I didn't care that I got hurt.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.

Rugby takes its toll.

I don't like to get hit, who likes it? I probably wouldn't do this sport if I was getting hit that much.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

MMA is the most dangerous sport there is for a transgender, with all the body contact, I know that.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.