Adam Thielen Quotes

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

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.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

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.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

It's tough to play with an injury.

I have felt in my head that I would like to play, but then you listen to your body and accept it might be better that you do not play every game immediately after an injury.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.

I can't dictate how I play because I'm injured. I've got to go out there and still play.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I'm not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through.

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 don't even remember how many times I've sprained my ankle. I've had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.

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

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.