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Injuries Quotes

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

– Billy Corgan

In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice – either teams don’t want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can’t do it – for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.

– Brett Favre

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

– Aesop

I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. ‘Anna Karenina’ was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

– Alicia Vikander

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting – it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

– Alveda King

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

– Christie Rampone

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

– Peter O’Toole

It’s a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don’t feel like having that mental battle with myself.

– Maurice Greene

The thing I’m afraid of the most with the 800m is injuries. That’s why I don’t normally like to run in a group: I prefer to be in front, just in case someone pushes me with their spikes. I don’t like stuff like that.

– Caster Semenya

For most of my career I’ve been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

– Mark Viduka

People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It’s just that people haven’t known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

– Eric Davis

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

– Charles Inglis

If I’d still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn’t had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

– Michael Owen

I’ve played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

– Eric Church

I wouldn’t take any of my injuries back; I feel like I’m stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks.

– Eloise Wellings

I’m pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I’ve only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

– Mara Wilson

It’s unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

– Daniel Cormier

Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I’m a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

– Gabrielle Giffords

The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can’t. I’ve stayed away from some of those.

– Eli Manning

Injuries aren’t anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can’t complain about it. When you’re standing up there on the blocks, it doesn’t really matter: it’s all about the next minute.

– Cate Campbell

My fiancee’s brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It’s an issue I wish had more coverage.

– Gary Lineker

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.

– Emmitt Smith

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

– Evel Knievel

I’ve had so many injuries.

– Patrick Swayze

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.

– Cesc Fabregas

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else’s injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn’t hurt?

– Peyton Manning

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

You can’t let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

– DeAngelo Williams

Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

– Nathan Deal

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