Hamstring Quotes

You have to shut it down and identify the reasons... So many times [teams] are forced into a situation of treating the symptoms because they don't have the time. But the hamstring strain is a red flag of a symptom. If you don't get the problem addressed, you still have the original problem and now you have a second problem that was only a symptom before. - Mackie Shilstone

You don't want to have Manny out with his hamstrings if he was hustling to avoid a double play. If he were to pull his hamstrings, that would be worse (than not hustling). - David Ortiz

You can train as hard as you want to, and your spike catches in the ground and all of a sudden you have a hamstring or groin pull. You can't measure when [injuries] will happen. You do your best to try to prevent it. - Will Ohman

You bank on what the doctors say... We're in touch with what is supposed to be the best [hamstring specialist] in the country. We're going to listen to him and see how David feels and go from there. - Andy Reid

With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it. - Andrew Friedman

With hamstring injuries, it's hard to predict. We talked to Rocco this morning and what we said is, 'Let's not set a firm date. Let's do it when you feel good.' We don't want him to keep targeting some specific date. - Andrew Friedman

Whenever you slip like that, you never know if it's torn knee ligaments or a hamstring or what. But, fortunately it was just bruised. I don't think it's much of a secret how much we rely on what he does. - Mike Moran

We've had his hamstring checked out by a specialist and there's no tear but there is tightness in his back so we'll just let that settle down and have him fit and available for next week. - Greg Cooper

We'll see how the injury settles down, but it looks like a strained hamstring so he could be missing for a few games. - Bryan Robson

We'll see how he reacts and increase the activity as he tolerates. It's not something we'll be aggressive with. We've tried to relate this with a hamstring [strain], and obviously it hasn't completely healed 100 percent. If you did an MRI, there'd be some inflammation in there. We have to be real careful and strengthen it as it's healing. I'm not going to put any time frames on this at all. - Mark O'Neal