I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.
Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can’t be down with that; it is not gonna help you.
The injuries and subsequent incidents inspired me to do something. I converted my weakness into my strength and made it my weapon.
As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It’s all part of the football game. I’ve dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I’ve dealt with. It’s all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
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.
As a forward it is always a bit easier to avoid the kind of challenges that can cause impact injuries.
It’s not that every time India play they will have their best team on the park because there are bound to be injuries and other factors.
It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don’t think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.
Injuries are part of the job.
I have always loved football! Of course, you have sometimes difficult times with injuries, defeats, etc., but this is part of the sport.
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.
Thankfully, hamstring injuries don’t take that long to heal.
I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.
I wouldn’t take any of my injuries back; I feel like I’m stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks.
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it’s from training.
You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.
The big goal is playing in June, so I’d rather be in the best shape I can be in health-wise than be dragging with nagging injuries or not being 100 percent trying to get to the Finals.
Yeah, I’ve had injuries.
The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.
I tend to hold on to injuries a lot longer than others.
Everyone gets hurt, but I’ve probably had the most injuries.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It’s ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don’t wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours – the loneness of the long distance runner.
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.
My father moved to Belgium to play in the first division. He was a very good player, someone I looked up to, but he was unlucky with knee injuries. He was a winger and I wanted to be the same as him.
The different kinds of injuries, you go through a lot of different kinds of pain. But the most painful thing is actually the rehab. You have to go through pain in order to get better. The pain you feel during rehab is actually a good thing, it’s something you have to go through in order to get better.
We can’t control injuries and we can’t control things like that. But physically, when it comes down to pure strength, quads, legs, core, upper body, I’m a whole lot stronger.
Subconcussive injuries are brain injuries on top of unrecovered brain injuries.
I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I’m having none of that.
I’ve kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I’ve had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone – and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
It’s not like I can’t play football with some injuries.
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn’t even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
WWE was far more tougher than working for a film where you could take a shot and go and rest in the trailer, but for WWE, one had to exercise, eat well, fight, and even deal with injuries.
When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I’d do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
Every football player has their own journey and unfortunately my injuries were out of my hands. There wasn’t much I could have done about that except rehab to the best of my ability which I did.
Injuries are a big factor when you’re trying to go on a championship run.
I extended my contract here with Bayern because I am happy. I am very thankful of the club and how they supported me regarding my injuries. That is why I put my contract extension into motion so early.
I have to prove everything. Especially when you’re coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
I’ve picked up a lot of injuries, and there’s been games when I’ve looked back and watched and thought, ‘I could have done this better,’ ‘I could have done that better.’
I’ve been doubted my whole life, especially coming out of college with the injuries I had.
There’s only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it’s going to happen.
For a number of years, I wasn’t consuming any dairy and suffered some injuries. At the time, I wasn’t taking advantage of a wholesome diet with dairy and cheese and milk. Once I started implementing the dairy, including chocolate milk, I started to feel the difference.
You can understand why it is difficult for the players who have long-term injuries when they have to watch the boys going out training every day.
I feel like, looking back, if I didn’t have so many injuries, who knows where my numbers could be right now. But only God can judge me.
Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in – it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.
One thing I can say is I’m thankful. It’s been a long road for me through my injuries.
From a personal point of view, you want to be playing in every game, but when you have to cope with the heat, the artificial surfaces, injuries, and tactics based around the coach’s selection, you can’t do it all.
I’ve had four knee surgeries in my career. I just don’t do small injuries. The highs of winning are always balanced out by the lows of being injured and missing games. There was a time when I was out for nearly a year, having already been out for six months with another surgery before that.
I’ve seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.
I don’t pull out of fights. I fight through injuries. I don’t care what the circumstances are.
To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.
I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything – I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.
It’s hard to diagnose head injuries in any sport, and nobody knows their own body as well as themselves.
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.
