Athlete Quote by Tara Lipinski

As an athlete, you learn to keep pushing through the pain until the pain eventually becomes unbearable. Even then, you are told to continue.

— Katelyn Ohashi

To be successful in this sport, you have to turn off the pain. But when something's aggravated in practice, you need to say, 'OK.…

— Jim Miller

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…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.

— Jamal Murray

There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and accomplishing a…

— Jonathan Horton

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

— Kim Clijsters

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be…

— Kylie Bunbury

Recovery days are critical to my training, and that holds true for any athlete.

— Laird Hamilton

Not playing every day, I kind of healed up a little bit from the little injuries that I had the year before. Then, when…

— Jim Thome

When you talk about an injury and the kind of depression you go through, it's not just because you're out of shape and you…

— Jamila Wideman

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused…

— Gwen Stefani