Greg Rutherford Quotes

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

Thankfully, hamstring injuries don't take that long to heal.

A hamstring is definitely nothing to play with. There are chronic hamstring injuries where guys think it is fine, and they go out there and try to run and pull it again.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

Obviously with a knee injury there are certain protocols that need to happen.

I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.