Ben Domenech Quotes

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

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.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

You never want an injury as you're getting ready for the playoffs.

If I have got an injury, I have got an injury. Whenever I want to play for Nigeria, I must be 100 percent, I want to give everything. But if I have got an injury, I don't want to force myself, because I am going to look stupid on the pitch.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

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 must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

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.

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.