Edwin Moses Quotes

I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That's not because I feel old and my body needs it. It's because it's prehab. It's preventing those injuries.

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

I take a lot of pride in being flexible, preserving my body. After a workout, I ice both feet, my calves, knees and stretch.

Take care of your muscles and they'll hold up.

When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my body to recover.' The first thing I thought was that I needed to stay upright. When I went back to Brazil to play, after a few months, my body was perfect.

How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.

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.

Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.