Athletic Setbacks Quotes

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

Before I played in the NHL I had two surgeries. Definitely I was like, 'Wow, this is not good. I haven't played a game yet and I have two surgeries.' I didn't get another one ever again. I was fortunate.

I've had a lot of injuries.

Unfortunately, football's hard and you're going to have bad games sometimes.

All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

So much of my career was affected by injuries. Not just the well documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things. Injuries hit me hard, and they always seemed to come at key times.

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.