In 1962, my injury wasn’t because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn’t have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I’d played two games.
I had an injury that just dug away at me. I would spend every track session crying, attempting to run and breaking down when I couldn’t.
As I’ve opened up, the less negative comments there are. Ninety-eight percent of followers love what I’m doing for fashion, for tennis, for coming back from an injury. They follow the part that inspires them.
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 have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.
I’ve dealt with bigger things than the odd performance, dealt with a hell of a long time out of the game from an injury which shouldn’t have kept me out for that long. I’ve had to deal with fears of not playing again, I’m a bigger man for it and I will be better for it in the future.
I know a little bit how it is coming back from an injury, trying to find your rhythm.
At the combine we went through medical exams from every team, the most extensive physicals I’ve ever had: blood tests, MRIs, heart monitors, everything. Because of my injury teams really paid attention to my lower body.
If you’re gonna do action movies, you’re gonna get an injury at some point. It’s inevitable.
The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.
I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn’t been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.
I never worry about injury. When you go out there, you’re playing football. And when you start worrying about those things, that’s more when they happen, playing timid or keeping it in the back of your mind.
There are moments of high mood, there are moments of low mood, there are moments of injury, there are moments of strength, there are moments of progress, there are moments of stagnation. All we can do is keep on pushing.
I had to have tests for cancer and other diseases – it wasn’t much fun. I was getting a shooting pain in my hip and we didn’t know what it was. First of all we thought it was an old injury. But they didn’t find anything wrong, even though when I had an ultrasound test it was all really swollen.
It’s one thing to be 100 percent and go out and play football feeling great. It’s another thing when you’re not feeling good. You’re sick, or you got a nagging injury, and you gotta go out in the cold and go across the middle where a guy’s coming full speed at you trying to kill you.
Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.
When you look at starting pitchers, once they make it through year four, then – knock on wood – you see a lot of injury risk go down.
I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn’t put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.
A lot of people are blowing Shogun’s fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.
I was told as a teenager I’d never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn’t even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.
If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
All the time I have a small injury or a bigger injury.
I think whenever you have any kind of injury or challenge, you just have to deal with it the best you can. You have to decide what’s important to you and focus on getting back to where you want to be. And enjoy where you are and what your goals and dreams are and just give it 100 percent.
I can proudly say that I had no scandal throughout my career. And there was no serious injury worries because of what I was taught how to live off the pitch. It was very important.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
If the champion can’t fight because of an injury, it’s not my fault. It happens in this sport. It’s normal.
As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn’t play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.
Even after I retired I’d get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it’s another message and I’ll just ignore it, but these things shouldn’t be acceptable. They aren’t acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.
That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle – having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.
Obviously with a knee injury there are certain protocols that need to happen.
When someone tells you a fighter’s injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.
Venus hasn’t been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam – she’s been coming back from injury.
I liked helping talent with their matches prior to my injury. Obviously, now as a producer it becomes more a larger responsibility than just me as a talent giving advice. What I didn’t know was I didn’t know how fulfilling it could actually be.
In 2012, we had just won the league with City, and I was really high on confidence going into the Euros when I picked up an injury, which meant I couldn’t go.
I played very well in AC Milan, but I had two years of injury problems. I needed to change team and the city for my mentality.
I always end up saying, whether it being my rookie year, not playing as many games as I should have with the new coaching and whatnot, and then my injury and my suspension, I feel like every year, it’s always been something, you know what I mean?
When lab safety procedures aren’t followed, people can get hurt or worse. Lab equipment and chemicals that are improperly handled can result in personal injury and even death.
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.
Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
Like, everyone knows that we all need health care, but not only is it insanely expensive for most people in America, there are so many self-employed people who really struggle when faced with injury and disability and illness.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
I just feel like it’s my job to take care of my body. I play a contact sport, 99.9 percent injury rate. As far as being injury-prone or getting hurt, it’s going to happen. But it’s my job to take care of my body, come week in and week out.
Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just enjoyed coming in every day and playing; then it was taken away from me.
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
It’s the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.
There’s no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.
I’m more thoughtful and aware of how my body feels. I’ve learned the difference of what is just sore from a hard workout or what’s sore from a possible injury.
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
If you play football, there’s going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
