The World Motivation
When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.
“When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.”
— Chris Mullin · Injured
When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.
It doesn't matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.
You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.
When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.
Life is not perfect.
An injured lion still wants to roar.
If somebody is injured, it is a chance to show what you can do as a team; to show that you are a team. You might have difficult moments when you are without an important player but you just have to think, 'OK, we need to work together now.'
I've got injured in one World Cup, been to a Euros and another World Cup, so I've been there, seen it, and had a taste of it.
It is always a shame when players are injured.
I trained with Shaolin monks in China and I faced a lot of limitations I had to get over. I got hurt, I got injured, I got tired, but I always came back for more because my brain told me I could overcome it all. It was a mental puzzle I was being asked to solve.