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.
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Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.
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.
With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.
When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
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