Playing Hurt Quotes

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

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

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

If there's one thing I've shown, I'm not scared of physicality. I'm not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.

Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.

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

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

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.

It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

It's tough to play with an injury.

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

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

Even in high school, when I had injuries, I tried to play with them. When I shouldn't have worked out, I worked out.

My personality, if I was healthy enough to play, I'm going to play! I felt that at 75, 80 percent, even if I had a sprained ankle, if I'm out there on the floor, I could be Deion Sanders.

I've played with sprained ankles before, bruises, stuff like that.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.