Injury Prevention Training Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Dancing is hard on all bodies, but I particularly kept getting injured.

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 impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

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

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

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

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.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.

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.

I've picked up a lot of injuries, and there's been games when I've looked back and watched and thought, 'I could have done this better,' 'I could have done that better.'

I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

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

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement.

I just feel like I try to get out of each game healthy.