Sports Injuries Quotes

I've been very fortunate with injuries: I've had the odd broken bone in my back; when I was starting out here in England, I cracked a few ribs, and I've broken a bone in my hand.

I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.

Our schedule is intense. We do this for five nights a week, so injuries can happen very easily with the demands of the job. It's just the nature of what we do and sports in general.

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

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

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

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with the game.

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

I couldn't identify just one, but there's numerous rule changes and points of emphasis that have reflected a change on the field almost immediately. It's hard to avoid the horse-collar tackle, for example, but the players understand why the rule is in there - because of the injury rate prior to us making that a personal foul.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.

If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.

As the story about CTE got more real, it became more clear that players are playing that without a full understanding of the risks they face, and the long-term effects.

As athletes, we're always trained to play through stuff. And I've played through all types of injuries - ankle sprains, shoulder, whatever - and with the brain it's just different.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

He [Gerald R. Ford] played too much football with his helmet off.

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 feel like I envision a lot of hamstrings getting pulled and a lot of bumps and bruises out there.

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

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

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.