Athlete Health Quotes

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

I'm so excited to be a Coppertone brand ambassador because as an athlete, taking care of my body is a huge part of my job, and sunscreen is a vital part of that.

Players don't change drastically. Maybe they get more in form if they're a goal scorer, or they get healthier if they've been injured.

I am not going to box unfit, obviously.

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.

Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.

Hydration is a key thing, as an athlete yes, but also for your skin, and I do notice the biggest difference when I stay hydrated.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

When you get into the Finals, I don't think anybody is completely healthy.

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes - my kids, high school kids - get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what happens with guys.

Steroids are used in all sports.

An athlete may not know what they're putting in their body.

We've had people like Marc Vivien-Foe die while playing. There have been too many others, including Cheick Tiote. The clubs and the federations have to be serious about giving checkups to the players.

That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.