Injury Quotations | Page 3

He is a guy that can play with pain. An injury to anyone is something you're concerned with, but I think he is going to be OK.

He had a bad deal. With his neck injury then his eye socket and then his back, but he's now fully fit. And this is as good as week as any for this game.

He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't playing too well. I think he gained some confidence in that game against Watkins. He was coming back from an injury and finally got comfortable and played his game and didn't worry about his ankle.

He ended up playing 90 minutes last week when we didn't really want him to because we are trying to ease him back. It's an injury in a place that he is going to get a lot of contact so we have to take it slowly.

He flat-out said you are going to be fine. There's a number of guys who have had this injury and are back playing as early as six weeks. I'm not saying I'm going to be back in six weeks ... I can't do much within three weeks. After that I will rehab. I'm a determined guy and I'm already starting to feel better. I don't have that initial pain I had before.

He made a tremendous play. That's why he's going to be a superstar in this league. It just adds insult to injury when it's the sixth goal in a blowout game. But it was certainly exciting for the fans to see.

He never had the daily repetitions of a mike learning curve, the reads, the reactions, the fits and drills. It was kind of a season in learning. When he began to start to play pretty well is when he had that little injury and didn't really play well again until the bowl game.

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We can make that play, but we made the decision during the injury timeout. It worked out pretty well for us.

We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have 15 guys on the team. When somebody goes down, other people have to step up and take the challenge.

Whatever he decides, we'll support him. But he's already said he's not going to play until he's 100 percent -- either here or there. Who knows? This might be a two-week injury and he might need a full two weeks to get healthy. I'm not sure if their country is holding a spot for him, but he's not playing until he's 100 percent.

We took a gamble at bringing Peter in. The extent of his injury was probably more than we thought it was. He was a borderline. But we did know eventually he would be OK.

We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down to. With an injury like this, it's not ideal playing on an artificial turf surface.

We?re only allegedly that the injuries she sustained was not accidentally and somebody caused this injury to her.

When he reminded me of the injury -- he has treatment nearly every morning at 6 a.m.. I just told him, 'You have to be the one to make that decision.

When he opened up and went to shoot for goal, the hip injury was causing him a lot of pain,

We feel like he's a talented player. We think he can help us out here and hopefully he'll be able to put those injury problems behind him.

We've followed all the steps that Barcelona have instructed. The injury is improving well in the way we had predicted.

We've done tests on the injury all year. It just started to flare up. We're anxious to get him back at 100 percent.

We are fortunate that this was a minor injury and caught early. Sean has a great work ethic and we know he will work extremely hard to be back to 100 percent when the regular season begins.

What we were doing is really injury prevention and very close attention to how the training is done. I would pick up on having their tendencies to, for example, use one hip more than the other or having a misalignment of one hip or leg.

He obviously is very disappointed because he wants to get out and play and we would have liked to have seen that as well. It was something that he didn't realize he did when the injury occurred.

Her severe brain injury has caused a lack of verbal communication along with visual and perceptual impairments, ... But she still seems determined to get back to where she was.

He's a guy that if you tell me, 'You've got an injury or whatever and you've got to play Wayne 24 minutes a game,' I'm fine with that.

He's a great player and he can play a little bit of everything, and he's out for the year now. That's a major injury for us because he's been nicked up a little bit, we got him back, we were excited, but now he's out for the year.

He's always had the desire to play the best that he could, but those injury problems, a lot of people didn't know about,

He's got good skill, and I think he gives our team depth, and maybe he'll surprise us. In the new world, you're going to have to have some players that are good bargains. At the worst, he'll be a good player for us in Grand Rapids and if we get into injury situations, he'll probably be a good guy to call up with his NHL experience.

He's just got to learn to control everything a little better. He did a lot better last year, they told me, but he had the arm injury and it's just got to keep improving. He has a chance to be a great pitcher in this organization, whether it is as a starter or a 'pen guy. We haven't really decided. He will dictate that.

He's been told that there's a possibility of surgery since the injury happened. There was always that possibility. I don't know if it's any more viable now than it was before.

He's done well. I had my concerns and I think he's a little ahead of schedule. From what we can see, his injury is behind him. It'll take a little time, but certainly over the next month or so, he should be coming into form.

He's having more tests to see what's wrong, ... Part of the problem is we don't know if it there's an injury in the bone, the joint or the ligament.

He's had this injury three times before, so it's not too foreign to him. He won't do much for the next week or two, but as soon as he's right he will be back up and playing pretty much straight away.

His pace does make a difference. There is plenty of time but the concern is that this injury has been around for a while and there has been no real improvement.

His only bucket of the whole season, matter of fact. Kevin is a winner. He would have a larger role if he wouldn't have had a real bad knee injury early in the season, but he does what he can. He's a winner so we appreciate his effort.

Hockey is a game where intimidation is still a part of the game, and you'll go to great lengths to try to win a game. If you know a player has an injury or weakness, he becomes vulnerable. He becomes targeted.

He's a star. Only an injury keeps him out of the first round (of this year's MLB Draft), only an injury keeps him from being a long-time major leaguer.

He's a very, very smart football player, ... When you have a guy who has that kind of versatility, it's unbelievable in terms of having injury situations.

He's fine. I'm not listing him (on the injury report), so he's fine.

He's been carrying that elbow injury for a long time and he selfishly went right to the last minute to try to get himself in that team. If he wants to do another fitness test two days out from the fifth Test, I'll kick his bum because it's distracting everyone.

He's done everything right, so we're happy with that. He's put the injury behind him, he's married and ready for a fresh start.

I absolutely could not be prouder of my daughter. But, at the same time, I am not surprised. I have seen her play through injury and illness before. She is one of those kids that a coach hopes for.

He was just having a really, really long match, and he's had some injury problems. Going into the spring, there's really no sense in pushing it through that second set.

He was in good spirits when I spoke to him this morning. You could see that there was a little bit of panic when he was coming off the ice. He knew that it was a serious injury and hopefully things will work out.

He was significantly better this year. And I don't think the injury hurt him because it made him focus so much on the physical training that he was a lot stronger this year. And just working through that adversity made him a better player.

He wanted a minute to look at the injury and that kind of got blown out of proportion. That's why he was out. That's probably the biggest mystery to all of this.

He just has been a tremendous blessing in the program. He's had some rough patches between injury and being behind Valenti. He got his opportunity this year and to make it into the Sweet Sixteen is something he can be very proud of.

He just had a fluke injury in practice, and we're hoping he'll be back soon. We're hopeful he would be able to play fairly soon, but we don't know.

This was our best team win. This is a team that battled through some injury issues, a team that battled through some major, major personnel issues. They're playing with passion. They're hitting people. They're flying around. It was a team taking care of one another.

There are so many good players out there who never truly get to shine, ... They get back, get rolling, then there's another injury. That's the last thing you want is to get that injury label on you.

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

I was laying in the hospital with a couple of broken legs and a broken arm wondering, if this injury was one that would end my career, what would I want to do after I was done riding? I determined it would be either train horses or train jockeys.

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Jake?s a great story. He?s played through an injury this year, had some rocky roads but he played outstanding tonight and made some great saves.

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Jordan has joined us until the end of the season and, with our current injury situation, he adds another body to our squad.

Jon's injury was a nasty one and leaves us short on attacking options.

Joey wrestled very well before the injury and has picked up where he left off.

Joe has worked very hard in coming back from injury over the last year and continues to give us options in a number of positions.

I talked to the coach and we've got a back-to-back with a game (Saturday). I'm kind of nursing this injury and got out ... before it got worse. We've got a goose egg so far on this road trip and if people are really competitors on this team, they'll step up to the challenge.

I talked to Channing today and we already started listing those areas of improvement for the summer. Although we are disappointed we won't have him for the last 18 games of the season, it was good news that the injury was not any worse.

I think it hurt more than my injury to have to watch the team lose without me. I felt so bad for the team, especially the seniors. But the only thing I can do about it now is work hard and come back even stronger for next year.

I think I played very well. I kept my concentration after the injury break and physically I felt 100 percent although I still need to do some work on my forehand.

It can't be a real significant injury because it's hard to believe somebody can throw 98 miles an hour and have a serious arm problem. He hasn't had any discomfort at all. He hasn't had any complaints since going to the 'pen.

I think it's a statement for our players. I don't think that they ever allowed Chuck's injury to be a built-in excuse for them.

It could be a risk to play him but that is a decision we have to make; sometimes an injury risk is also a risk as to whether they will perform or not. It is not easy being a selector.

It could even be setting you up for injury if you have muscle imbalances.

I thought we were very deep at the one, two and three positions. But I saw that we were one injury away from being hurt on the front line. That's where we could have been really hurt. We would have been very thin then.

I thought we were pretty special last year, then the injury bug hit. I think we could do some nice things (this year) and this game showed we're trying to work hard and build off where we left off last year.

It is a common injury for athletes, to the groin. I was confident when I put in the petition I was giving 100 percent. I listen to my body every day.

I thought Darren had suffered a bad knee injury but I am led to believe that he is back in training now and he could actually come to Japan with us.

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Lack of complete recovery at 7½ months after injury raises serious questions about his future recovery and his ability to return to competitive hockey.

I was conscious of the injury right from the start. I think that was natural because there was a fear that the shoulder could pop out again. But I had to test it out at some point. It could have gone three or four games down the line, it could have lasted until the end of the season.

I think we need to be patient with Eddie. He's just starting to come back. He's only played a couple of games since his injury in late May, so he's not completely in form at the moment.

I think we have no clear clue of the extent of his injury or the time of his recovery.

It has been an extremely painful process both physically and emotionally since the injury on October 30th.

I think we can definitely say we're looking at that this is the finals. It is a very important time. We're near the end. Obviously, we're doing everything we can to squeak out that little edge to be able to get her to play. But I think it is legitimate to say that this is a big enough injury that at different times in the year, you would handle it differently.

I think University had an injury bug a little bit, so some of their guys ended up a little tired there in the third period, and we were fortunate to pop in a few goals there to kind of pull away. It wasn't a certainty, I think, until that third goal. That took some of the wind out of their sails.

I think that's what everyone's getting right now. Like Astroturf, you don't have to water it and mow it, so the maintenance is very low on it. And it doesn't have nearly the injury problems that Astroturf has.

I think that's part of the charm of recruiting. You can never get enough great players. It's just another way to inflict injury on your rivals. That's why recruiting is so important to some people. You're winning two times. You're getting a player and you're taking him away from somebody else.

I think that it's been a rough year for him, period. But at his age, and only playing half a season at Double-A (because of a shoulder injury in 2004), you really have to offensively believe that he will be a different hitter next year.

It is hard to say whether Steven would have picked up his injury if he hadn't played so many games, you just don't know.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent

Laura really did well and it's a good way for her to end her senior year. She had a lot of injury problems and was really not able to practice a whole lot. It was nice to see her overcome that and have a strong state.

I was a little more encouraged with Charlie today. Today was kind of a test day. We thought it would be anywhere from play him to scope him on Thursday, but he has responded a lot better than we possibly thought he would when the injury happened." ()

I was able to stay in shape, though it's not the same as game shape. All around it was pretty good rehab. I should be at 100%. The only thing is the rustiness from being off. The injury feels fine. It's not an issue anymore.

I think the size thing is a little bit overrated in running backs. Everybody says, 'Well, we need a big back.' Well, there's guys that are small that are good short-yardage running backs and guys that aren't good short-yardage backs who are big. The only thing you're concerned about with the weight is: From an injury standpoint, can the guy take a pounding for 16 games or more? That's what you're really concerned about.

I think there is consternation and perhaps a sense of injury at the tone and substance of the letter.

Jason suffered the injury in training and has to be a doubt for the Cardiff game.

Jason's got an injury that guys have played with in the past. We're going to treat him through the week, and try to let him throw Thursday and Friday and see if he can go Saturday.

Jarvis is a big part of our team and it is unfortunate that this injury hasn't healed properly. After reviewing Jarvis' progress, it was decided that the best course of action was to have the injury surgically repaired. We expect Jarvis to make a full recovery.

Kyle is coming back to his form from last fall when he tied for first in the Raising Cane, ... He had back a lower back injury slow him down after that and has been a little inconsistent. However, we are expecting big things from him for the remainder of year.

Kyle is a good athlete with good speed and he has worked hard in the off-season. Pat has excellent size and has also worked hard. Phil missed last year because of an injury but is athletic and has played well.

I saw Marat yesterday and he looked fine. He said the injury has fully healed and he was ready to resume playing.

I see at least one injured cheerleader a day. It's from a combination of insufficient conditioning and dangerous routines. Girls fall from pyramids or land the wrong way on a jump. I think the injury risk in this sport is as high as football.

Right now, she (Chamberlain) is coming off a shoulder injury from the indoor season. So, she's throwing just long enough to win.

Rob has been doing very good. He had a sore knee for two weeks and the injury healed. He has started to get his times back to where they were. The doctor said he needed to rest the injury.

Relaying a pitch at this time of year makes it much more difficult to lay a new one in the summer. The pitch here has always been a difficult one. Last year, it contributed to Scott Parker picking up a bad injury playing for us. It is all about where it is and where it can get the benefit of natural growth.

Passing wise, we didn't play very smart. It hadn't been exposed until now. We had an injury at corner and they found a weakness.