Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can take more pain than anyone.
This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.
I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.
To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.