Injury Prevention Exercises Quotes

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

I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

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

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

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

Dancing is hard on all bodies, but I particularly kept getting injured.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

For every 100 times you can nail a big move, it's that 101st time where you over-rotate and it can end your career.

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don't necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you're done.

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.

People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

If you see me when I first burst onto the scene, you see how quickly I could turn for a big lad and how fast I was up and down the pitch. Then I started picking and choosing my time to go forwards because I was scared of my hamstring going or my knee not dealing with it.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

No one is immune to needing to sit or needing to go down at the right time, and you want to give guys a chance.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I want the opportunity to play pain-free.