I get quite depressed and unmotivated by my injuries.
I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.
There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that accompanied his unprecedented accomplishments and successes.
Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.
The biggest thing I got from my sister’s career was never to give up. She had so many ups and downs throughout her career. Injuries and big injuries – ACLs. And she never gave up; she always came back fighting.
I’ve had so many injuries.
When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I’ve had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.
Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you’ve wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.
War destroys people’s souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.
I jumped off a cliff backwards for ‘I Am Number Four,’ which was pretty cool. I’d never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.
A lot is made of my injuries and yes, I’ve had niggles and muscle problems. Some managers haven’t picked me, and my form has played a part at times as well.
I don’t like to give in to injuries. I don’t like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.
It’s the subconcussive hits, the constant bam, bam, bam that linemen like Suh give and receive. Those are the hits scientists say cause the lasting damage to the brain, the kind of injuries that made guys like Mike Webster, Terry Long, and so many others go crazy. The subconcussive hits – every single play.
Regardless of injuries, we would get onstage, and as soon as we were up there it was like, bam! You were hit with an incredible force. The band came alive on stage like someone had switched us on.
It is definitely easier to deal with injuries on the mental side after you’ve had a few of them, since you are aware of the recovery process.
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.
No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries – they all bring on their own special breed of dismay… You just have to ride the wave. You don’t have any other choice.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn’t developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
I don’t ever feel cautious about making plays. I tell myself that injuries are more likely to occur if I try to play safe.
I don’t care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.
I haven’t thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit.
Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I’m a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.
You can’t segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.
International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you’ve got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.
As long as we’re having contact and as long as there are collisions, there’s going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we’re beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.
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.’
I’d heard other players talking about dark times when they were trying to get back from bad injuries.
I had some pretty substantial injuries.
It’s one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.
Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it’s small injuries. Sometimes it’s lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure.
You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that’s just how things go.
I’m concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it’s really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that’s the big problem for football.
I’m very pleased with how far I’ve come, and I see my injuries and my scars and all my buddies and everybody that was at Walter Reid with me, you know I see it almost as a form of character.
I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I’d say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.
I accept that since I went to City I haven’t played great. But I haven’t had a fair chance. I’ve had injuries too.
My players have to be competitors before footballers. They don’t pull out of tackles in training. It’s full-tilt and if we pick up injuries, we pick up injuries. They have to give everything on the pitch and leave it all out there.
If athletes went to the races more and to the backside in the morning, I think more people would get involved because, as an athlete, we can relate to what the horses go through. Training routine, injuries, massages, etc.
It was only after I’d had some injuries that I basically retired from the performing side of show business and then began working in casting. I did that for 19 years or so before a friend of mine decided to cast me as Phyllis Lapin-Vance on ‘The Office.’
For me, barefoot running has minimised my injuries. It creates a nice balance, when you are connection with the earth. It makes me enjoy running.
There’s a difference between knowing what to do when you’re rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you’re adrenalized and emotional. That’s when the injuries occur. Actors all want to try to pretend that they’re experts at everything, but we’re not.
I’ve had a number of injuries; I’ve had a number of surgeries, and I’ve been able to bounce back from them. I attribute that to Him as much as me just trying to take care of myself as much as I can.
I’ve had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents – things that were out of my hands.
It’s impossible for one player to play the whole year. I’ve learnt that myself, and you’re always bound to get injuries.
Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced – well, I’m not having that.
Sparring is probably the best cardio, but strength training is the best way to prevent the kind of injuries that come from roadwork and sparring.
I wrestled for 14 or 15 years. I’ve got a bunch of injuries, I’m tired, I’m getting old, I’m getting some grey hair now.
Even if you see a great performance, it’s not always great getting there. There are injuries… Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that – people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.
My whole career, I’ve never had no serious injuries or no surgeries.
You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.
