Of course, I believe injury has stopped me winning more tournaments.
It was especially tough following my shoulder injury. I was able to play again after three months out, but it wasn’t the same Boateng. I had the feeling I was in another body.
Any time somebody goes through a major injury you feel for him and also what I’ve been through, I know firsthand what it’s like.
When you have a coaching change, when you have trades, an injury, when you have all these things happening – these are all things that are out of your control. Quickly, you start to understand that, really, the only thing you can control is going out and playing hard every night and being ready for your opportunity.
I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that’s the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
I do a lot of yoga, it keeps you flexible and you recover from injury quickly and I try to keep my heart rate up the entire time.
Coming off a pretty significant injury for me with my shooting shoulder, I learned a lot about my character.
I went through a lot of pretty intense struggles in my life, through my head injury, whether it was mental or psychological.
OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the general welfare of working Americans, whether work itself is hazardous or not.
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.
A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.
In every sport, at the competitive level, there’s always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.
If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.
When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.
Defender Birendra Lakra, unfortunately, had to miss Rio Olympics due to injury, but we had ready replacements – Harmanpreet Singh and Surender Kumar. They did better because they got the exposure of playing ahead of Olympics. That’s the magic of rotational system.
I’m impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.
After an injury left me unable to perform my usual routine, I focused on the best upper body workouts to keep myself fit and strong.
You never want an injury as you’re getting ready for the playoffs.
Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.
I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.
A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.
When you get a typical injury, you’re given a time frame; you’re gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you’re feeling better. You feel like you’re getting better, and it can be one day and you’re back to where you started.
We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.
If you feel like you’ve got a concussion, if you don’t know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you’ve got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.
I don’t want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.
I had obviously a freak injury right when I got there and there’s a lot of things that were kind of out of my control when I was in Boston.
At RB Leipzig at first I was 18 years old. I was the youngest player in the squad and so at first it wasn’t easy because I came there with an injury.
I’m usually fine with NFL players holding out. Considering the risk of injury and no guaranteed contracts, you can’t blame them for getting what they can when they have the most leverage.
But coming back from injury, is like starting to exercise for the first time. You can’t get stuck in straight away because you might do yourself a mischief; you have to be sensible.
We have physical therapy there now so any fighter with an injury in the UFC can come to Vegas and get treatment every day.
I believe it’s extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your training, so cross training will help you to avoid injury when you are dancing.
Growing up, we were very similar, but Steven got a bad injury. It set him back a year. But for that, we would have progressed at the same time.
A joke is a joke. There’s an expression – I don’t know if you have it – that’s ‘adding insult to injury.’
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
Whenever you’re coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.
When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That’s what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.
My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I’ve been to death.
Post career-threatening injury, you must fight not only your body, but your mind as well.
Oh, gosh, okay… well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.
Any injury I have had, I have come back stronger.
In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
I think regardless of hip injury, surgery or whatnot, you’re having to evolve and change how you’re going about your day just as the years go by, so, yeah, I’ve changed the way I go about getting ready.
I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, ‘Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can’t you?’ I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn’t his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body – causing me injury or death – to be an assault weapon.
I don’t want there to be a time where I’m ‘too old’ to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.
My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.
I am aware that I have come to the end of my martial times, but training with pain I want no longer. My body is battered by countless trainings. I collected nine operations; the body has become prone to injury.
While we were shooting ‘Baahubali,’ I had a knee injury, and a few months later, Prabhas injured his shoulder. Those two injuries meant a break of around five months from the schedule. So around that time, I was doing absolutely nothing, and Neeraj Pandey called me with ‘Baby.’
A traitor is a betrayer – one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn’t scream, doesn’t fake injury.
I didn’t want to keep fighting and risking injury to my body when the pay wasn’t where I needed it to be. I made a strategic decision to give it up after I fought Tito. I always planned on coming back when the sport was able to right itself and had a brighter future.
I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.
