Injury Quotations | Page 5

People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.

We've been working on some of the things mechanically and, obviously, I'll pay attention to what the doctors say and try to build arm strength the best we can without getting him hurt. It's kind of a freak injury for a pitcher. You never know where it comes from. We've been trying to stress mechanics even back to when he started his throwing program before this came up. We'll keep stressing it.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

We understand very clearly the difference between protecting a goaltender from injury and helping the goaltender protect the area of the net from a goal,

The real story on Ryan is how he has overcame his setbacks. Because when you climb to the top - become a starter - and an injury occurs that keeps you out for a long time, you have to start back at the bottom rung. Ryan fought his way back up.

The real offense here was in the producers' decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke.

There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.

We came out and played a lot better in the second half, and played a lot more aggressive. We just had a hard time stopping them in the first half. They made a lot of good shots and really hustled. Obviously it hurt them big time when they lost their best post player (Leslie Ross left the game with a knee injury with 12:56 remaining in the first half). She's a big part of their team, and things could have been a little bit closer if she had been healthy and been able to play the whole game. It's unfortunate that she got hurt.

While our form could have been better in the trials, we came through them well on the injury front, allowing us to go with our strongest possible line-up.

Those who seek to know God must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile.

We don't make any excuses and never will, but we've been a very unlucky football team from an injury standpoint.

Wearing a helmet, if you're a skier or snowboarder, reduces your risk of having a head injury by 60 percent.

We climbed the ladder and carefully removed it. The bird was conscious. However, the injury on his leg was bad.

We're all feeling blessed that he's this far along and he has great potential for recovery. It's a long road. He was from the point of injury to a bed in the Naval hospital in Bethesda in 60 hours.

We don't believe any weapon other than the suspects own hand is what caused this injury to the child, that this caused her death.

When my injury came, that made me want to work harder to be a better player, ... Track was great for me, it helped my speed. Now I can cut better and I'm quick off my feet.

We will decide how to prepare for the Moscow world championships according to the influence of the ankle injury and the condition of the recovery.

Whenever force is used, the principle of proportionality has to be applied, and all necessary measures have to be taken to avoid loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian property.

We thought it better to pull him rather to risk further injury if he continued to wrestle.

We thought he would recover and it looked good. But at training on Monday the injury was aggravated again, and we had no choice but to send him home.

We're not making any excuses, but this is a hard injury to recover from. We've been trying to get him back out there, but it has been hard for him. He still hasn't given up.

Thompson was regarded as one of the best receivers in the AIFL. He would have been in contention for the league's MVP last season if not for an injury that forced him to sit out the last 5 games.

Trying to cause someone great pain by hitting them in the head while they are facing the other way is an intentional act to injure. You will have to compensate them for any permanent injury they suffer, even if you did not mean the injury to be permanent.

There is real concern. It is a ligament injury and with the season running down he might not be fit before the end. I hope so much that this is not the truth but we are really concerned.

There is pain in the top of her shoulder. It doesn't look like a rotator cuff injury right now, but nobody knows for sure. Nobody's really sure what's wrong.

When you have an injury you never really get into a rhythm so every time you come down you're changing things.

When you had the kind of injury Mike had, he's going to have flashbacks and you're going to have to deal with things.

We've got to beat our injury bug. Other than that, we have the pieces in place.

We've got the injury bug again with this men's team and that's very disappointing.

When we thought that the running game was down, it's almost like an injury to a key player. When that key player goes down, that next person has to step in and fill that role.

We've now got to keep our fingers crossed for Angus. Being already the club captain he is the ideal choice but can be a bit injury prone.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

Two mobile homes were demolished on (U.S.) Highway 70, ... and there was one injury in one of those mobile homes.

Two hurricanes of Category Five force go through those facilities and you come out with no single disastrous pollution, no loss of life and no major injury of people. Really, we've done a good job,

Failing to qualify was a huge disappointment for me personally. I missed the last World Cup because of injury and this time we ended up finishing fourth in Group Four so we didn't go through.

But the object, place, substance, event, or animal that affords injury need not be encountered; it can be avoided, escaped or averted, if perceived.

Both players will fight it out for the first-team spot and we have been fortunate generally that we have kept a settled side apart from any injury problems.

The good news is that this is a different injury than we originally thought, but it is still an injury we have to let take its course in recovery. Gerald is having a tremendous season and we expect him continuing that when he returns, but we will be patient in letting his bone bruise heal fully and keep the long term in our minds.

The good news for us is that everyone's going to be back. We haven't got a long-term injury so if they come back next week or the week after, we've got no-one out for the rest of the season.

We'll have to evaluate that based on Jerome's injury and after we've looked at the tape.

Tony continues to rehab and nurse the groin injury that he suffered in the first round of the ACC Tournament against Florida State,

We all have concerns; everybody does. We're going to do all that we can to be as smart as we can to get our guys in the best possible condition, principally pitchers, so they're less likely to have an injury problem that would set them back and set us back.

This season was not a disappointment at all. We took it as far as we could take it considering the major injury to one of our top players.

To me, he's the epitome of a great athlete. He gets these injuries because he plays so hard. I'm always skeptical of guys who don't have an injury here and there because if you're paying the price every night those things are going to happen. Chris gives 100 percent every night.

Up until the injury we were consistently taking substantial bets for England but now the support has dried up - although we do face seven figure liabilities for an England victory.

The recovery process for such an injury is tremendous, and the family asks for the public's continued support and prayers.

Vaughan is a very good player who has done a great job as Test captain but he has always got injury concerns.

This was the second injury we've had where these guys have (come) together and came back and won. They have learned to fight together when things get tough.

We have about six weeks to move John along. Hopefully he stays injury free. If he's not able to overcome any kind of injuries, he will be a candidate for possible replacement on the roster.

We knew going in that we were the favorite and we just wanted to play well and stay injury free.

Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science

To get off the field injury free. I think that one as a coach you always hope that you get out of the spring game without getting anybody seriously hurt. Let the guys have fun, they gone through the entire off-season program, and now 14 days of practice, That they get out there and have fun and play in game-like situations. I want to see them compete. I want to see us improve. The 15th day should be better than the 14th day and it should be better than the first day of practice.

You hate to see him go through something like this, ... and we have to go through it, so it's a tough deal. But I think we've just got to deal with it. His injury this time, they said if last year was a 10, this year is a 2. It's not nearly as bad.

This year, coming back in great shape from the knee injury (at the end of 2004) and the competition he faced in training camp (from Ben Olson) has put him over the top. He's playing now at a level he visualized himself playing at over the summer.

What better way to recover from injury than a game against the Chiefs. They don't tackle. They won't hit me. In fact, I think my ribs will feel better after the game.

We've been suffering through the injury bug. We've got two collarbones broken and some other nicks, but these kids give a lot of effort and work hard. We just have to be a little smarter out there.

When a guy comes in late to camp, he quadruples the chance for injury because he has to catch up.

We monitor all the injury reports and look at what happened in the game. We will contact clubs and ask them for an explanation.

We will tweak some things and shuffle things offensively. Defensively, the injury isn't as much as a concern because we have some kids that can play the four spot.

We're going to watch him very closely. The liver injury is what we're most concerned about at this juncture.

We see in Eddie a player with great potential, and certainly the injury put him back. He acquired a reputation that people expected a lot out of him, and I'm not copping out of that. We do expect a lot of Eddie, but at the same time he's a young player and he's getting there. His best soccer is probably for the next World Cup in all honestly. He's got a bright future, and we're hopeful he's moving forward.

We saw what happened upstairs and they said (Favre) got leg-whipped. It wasn't intentional, I believe. We kind of knew what the injury was. He swore to me on the sideline that it was fine, but it stiffened up on him as the game went along. I was glad that he was able to go in and get the team into the end zone. That was important to him and to the offense.

We don't want volunteer firefighters incurring a work-related injury or death and not getting compensated, because that will drive people away. Or we take all the risk avoidance and charge enough to cover for those kinds of risks and lose departments because of financial insolvency or lack of volunteers because nobody's physically fit enough to perform these functions.

You feel bad for the guy. It's difficult coming back from one injury and then starting out with another. When we lose him, we lose steadiness behind our blue line.

This one has a minor injury on her back foot.

This not only allows us to expand, but gives us a greater opportunity to exercise physical injury prevention and attract new clients as well.

We have faced a number of setbacks as far as injuries go. It's kind of plagued us all season long. Just when we thought we were getting back to full strength, another injury would happen.

We do not see a pattern; it's not like there's one injury befalling tennis players like, say, ankle injuries, ... to continue to improve the schedule to allow for appropriate rest.

Both Ford and Volvo have looked at injury and fatality rates in rollovers involving vehicles that meet the federal standard to vehicles that have roof strengths that are multiples of the federal standard, and there isn't a difference.

Brandon gave up four goals, but I'm proud of the way he played. It makes it tougher when you get the nod (because of an injury to Bryce Szymanski) on short notice to start your first playoff game. But he did a heck of a job all year for us.

Bradley is finally starting to get healthy after that injury he had last Monday. I told him it had been a long time since we've seen that stroke come back.

Brett's never been a model for footwork, and those things and that injury kind of slowed him down where his feet were more under control and it factored into all that.

Brent's injury is a bad one and he could be out for a very long time, so we're thinking about him,

Be vigilant about words. Slip while walking, the injury can be repaired; but slip with talking, the injury is irreparable.

Every single day it's gotten quite a bit stronger. He's been real pleased with the amount of time it's taken to come back. It's been tough being out a week, but at the same time, I guess that's pretty good with the kind of injury I had.

At this point, our main concern is to make sure Ashley is all right. She was moving her hands and feet and she was coherent when she left. (The paramedics) took a precautionary measure to eliminate any potential injury to her neck and upper back.

Coming back from this injury has been difficult, ... Those thoughts have been in my mind, but I have to put that behind me and just say those are freak accidents and won't happen again. Now I am more conscious of how I treat my body off the field, and that will help.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Dimitri had a very good November tour. He left the squad because of his injury but he is fit again and his return is logical.

Edson is a good player and he showed today, scoring those two goals, that he's capable of scoring a lot of goals. It's too bad he's nursing an injury and cannot play to his potential.

Dye's injury was probably the most serious, ... He fouled a ball off his foot in the post-season.

Due to our weather, leaving a kid in a car for any amount of time can be a risk of death, or mental injury to a child.

Eric's injury is a huge blow to this team. It's just too bad, because he's been playing so well. Hopefully we'll get him back.

Eric's injury is a huge blow to this team, ... It's just too bad, because he's been playing so well. Hopefully we'll get him back.

Florida State is a very good team this year. They got off to a rough start this season with a key injury in their lineup, but they've just returned to their full roster, and with him in the lineup they are one of the better teams in the ACC.

First it was injury that made it more difficult for me to adapt to the Premier League. Then when I was well and playing, the new coach took over and he is not giving me much playing time.

Fear, hype and misinformation over mold in 2001 and 2002 created an insurance crisis in Texas that we're still paying for today. Our court system was flooded by questionable lawsuits driven by personal injury lawyers who preyed on people's health fears, despite the lack of any scientific evidence.

Every time they've been faced with the kind of adversity that injury brings, they've managed to step up. It had to be difficult for them. I counted eight new starters that they didn't have a year ago. That's a problem for anyone.

There was a lot of force. This injury was very, very severe.

There's no real way to explain it, other than that it's frustrating. Anyone who has been injured and tried to come back from an injury knows that, with your confidence and everything, it's like starting all over again.

There's not much he can do right now. It's a broken collarbone. That's got to heal properly. It's very difficult to say at this point because the injury is only a week old.

There's nothing you can really do to expedite the healing process. It takes time to heal, and it takes time to build the strength up. It's something he hasn't had before. I don't know if we've had an injury like that.

I started thinking about this camp as soon as last year's was over. Going to your first camp is tough, and the injury made it even tougher. But I learned how to prepare myself and what was expected of me. I can do all the things that are necessary. I just have to show I can do it night in and night out.