Athlete Resilience Quotes

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?

Definitely, injuries are tough, and they happen to every athlete in every sport. The best athletes put it behind them and keep pushing forward. I haven't really had a choice; I've had so many injuries. And the love of BMX, I haven't wanted to stop no matter what.

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."

I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.

Fighters don't just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.