Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.
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've done sport for a long time.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'