Quote

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.

— David Belle

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

— Yanni

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

— Ashton Eaton

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

— Bobby Rahal

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

— Rachel Platten

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

— Lawrence Taylor

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

— Joe Gibbs

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

— Abby Wambach

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

— Bill Bradley

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

— Jeev Milkha Singh

✗Opposing Perspectives

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

— Naveen Jain