Injury Prevention Strategies Quotes

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.

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

The biggest thing I learned is that when Dana says retire, you should retire. Otherwise, you will blow your knee out before your next fight.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

While I dealt with my share of injuries throughout my career, I was fortunate to have been healthy for the majority of our run in the 1990s. The same can be said about Michael Jordan.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

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

My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.

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

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

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.

A hamstring is definitely nothing to play with. There are chronic hamstring injuries where guys think it is fine, and they go out there and try to run and pull it again.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

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 don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.