Injury Prevention Education Quotes

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

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

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

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

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.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

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.

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.

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

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

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

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

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.

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

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

In terms of timing, there's never a good time to get injured.

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

People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

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

No one is immune to needing to sit or needing to go down at the right time, and you want to give guys a chance.

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.