A Quote by Sam Allardyce
You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.
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I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.
You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
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I think bravery is to get on the ball and be bold enough and confident enough to try things when everyone is looking at you and the pressure is on and people are expecting you to win.
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The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
If we are quite defensive and we lose the ball, we just try to get back into our positions and try to defend. That's something you have to do from time to time.
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As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.
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Whenever I get the ball in my hands, I just try to get the thing as north as possible and get in the end zone.
When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.
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