Injury Quotes - Page 34

• I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.

  Corey Dillon

  Football, Country, College

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• You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Over You, Forgiving

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.289, Courier Corporation

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• Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

  Jean Anouilh

  Memories, Past, Hatred

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• During the season, it's a lot of maintaining your fitness, so in the winter time is when the main work is done. During the season, I just try to maintain my speed with different types of drills with my trainer. I also work on some muscles. If there's ever any injuries during races, then I'll focus a lot of my time on the muscle recovery.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Recovery, Winter, Race

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it.

  Miesha Tate

  Stuff, Way, Sticks

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.

  Jozy Altidore

  Careers, Important, Before And After

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• My injury I told myself to deal with it, and bounce back stronger. I think I have.

  Djibril Cisse

  Thinking, Stronger, Deals

  Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiration, Needs, Disease

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Hurt, Mean, Cutting

  Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “Have a Great Day”, Fawcett Books

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• The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Character, Adversity, Opportunity

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• Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Views, Accepted

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• He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.

  Ashoka

  Doe, Glory, Reverence

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• Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

  Thomas Szasz

  Responsibility, Self, Skills

  Thomas Szasz (1988). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy”, p.22, Syracuse University Press

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• In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Forgiving, Indifference, Magnanimity

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.238, tredition

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• Worst memory is when I was fighting for a living. You have to fight and train no matter how bad your injuries. This at times made the fun go away.

  Duke Roufus

  Fun, Memories, Fighting

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Jesus, Children, Suffering

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.262

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• The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

  Solon

  Citizens, Done, States

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• For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing that makes it easier is thinking of how certain struggles make other accomplishments mean so much.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

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• Not playing every day, I kind of healed up a little bit from the little injuries that I had the year before. Then, when I got home this winter and my body wasn't beat up, I said, 'Wait a minute, this may work out.'

  Jim Thome

  Home, Winter, Years

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• It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.

  Donovan McNabb

  Football, Fun, Adversity

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• I knew I would be able to come back from the injury 100 percent.

  Sue Bird

  Would Be, Able, Percent

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• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  William Hazlitt

  Revenge, Accomplishment, Suffering

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

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

  Andruw Jones

  Play, Excuse

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• The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

  Baron Davis

  Play, Forget, Adrenaline

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• I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.

  Stacy Dragila

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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