View Single Post
Old 23-06-2010, 04:57 AM   #314 (permalink)
GIMH
Eternal Optimist
 
GIMH's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Shake my tree where's the apple for me?
Posts: 43,656
Quote:
Originally Posted by silentstriker View Post
Like that in the vast majority of sport. You gain esteem in the eyes of your teammates, opponents, and fans if you can play through pain and not show you're hurt. It's actually a big problem where players sometimes injure themselves even more because they don't admit to the team doctors that they're hurt. That obviously isn't good either, but it's the reason most of my friends think of soccer as a sport for wimps.
Yeah but I bet most of your friends follow a sport where the ****s that play it wear shoulder pads and helmets

Footballers who play through pain do gain respect as well, you know.

__________________
Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces

RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
GIMH is offline