Top 199 Injured Quotes

It was a coach called Adailton Ladeira who first asked me to play as left-back in 1988. I was a left-winger, but our left-back was injured at Uniao Sao Joao, my first club, and he asked me to fill in. I said ‘no problem,’ and I’ve played there ever since.

There were times while I was injured at Villa when I felt like I was a ghost.

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.

You never want to get injured, of course. That’s just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don’t find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.

When someone gets injured someone has to step up and fill his place.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It’s a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

You don’t know how your body is going to shape up. It’s whether you can maintain the performance – or improve it – without getting injured. That’s the battle every athlete faces and the older you get the harder it becomes.

A lot of my career I’m out of the gym, I’m injured and I’m blown up.

Firstly, before every game, I always speak with my mum. She really encourages me a lot. Then, once I’m out on the field, I say a little prayer for my team and for everyone on the field, both sides, so that nothing bad happens, no-one gets injured.

It’s never fun to be injured; it’s always boring being on the side. You want to go back to help the team and to be able to play.

Whenever I don’t get injured, the film is a dud. I didn’t bleed on ‘Rhinestone.’ I didn’t bleed on ‘Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.’

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

I was riding pillion on my friend’s motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I’d hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

People didn’t want to accept that I was injured. I played on a bad knee, a really bad knee, for a long time. I actually put team before me and played when I was hurt, but people still would dog me.

We’re not perfect; no one’s perfect. You know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason, I was, like, showcased in such a way of, like, this evil person and ‘Look what she’s done,’ and I got bullied really bad.

Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.

When I was injured after ‘Kill Bill’ I had a year where I not just couldn’t make any money but I couldn’t swim, I couldn’t surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn’t do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

It’s hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren’t in the military, they weren’t injured overseas in Iraq, they weren’t burned, they didn’t go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

Being injured, coming back, playing a few games, trying to get your fitness back, getting injured again – you don’t get a chance to prove what you can do.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn’t bend my knee. I couldn’t straighten it.

I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that’s kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.

In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.

I haven’t been injured at all. It’s just one of those things which does happen in football.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

I can’t describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

It’s always bad news when a player gets injured – dreadful news.

When you are injured, you need to strengthen yourself very well to make a comeback very confidently.

Sometimes, it’s just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

I don’t believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

You never know what could happen. Someone could get injured early in the game, so everyone knows they have to be ready. Anyone can come on at any stage in the game and make the difference.

As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy’s, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

It wasn’t until I was injured at the gym – resulting in an emergency room visit and bill of $4,000 – that I realized the cost of forgoing health insurance. I was fine, but it took me more than a year to pay off that bill. That hurt worse than the injury itself.

Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.

Some days you realise that everything is a burden, both physically and mentally. That it’s not about fun, but you have to deliver without a doubt. Even if you are injured.

I’ve had injuries in the past and I’ve always said that we earn our money when we’re injured, because it’s the hardest time. Playing football is the easy part because you’re enjoying it.

It’s one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That’s not much of a choice.

I can’t dictate how I play because I’m injured. I’ve got to go out there and still play.

Allowing workers’ compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.

Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other.

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

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don’t have to get injured, and I’m not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.

To be honest with you, it really doesn’t get me excited to see anybody get injured.

I always had the confidence. The platform, guys getting injured and giving me multiple opportunities, that has allowed me to showcase it.

When I’m injured, I eat everything – proper junk. That’s the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

When I was a kid I was the black sheep of the family because all my uncles and cousins were big Inter fans while I’ve always been Juve. In fact when I’m injured or suspended I’ll be in the stands behind the goal when we’re playing – in with the fans where I’m happiest.

People don’t understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

The obvious thing is I would love to fight Conor McGregor. We’ve got some history there, and he won, and people saying he didn’t knock me out because of an injury he had. I was injured in the fight, too, so let’s test that theory. I want to test that theory.