Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
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Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
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.
As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.
Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.
As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
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.