If your heart says something else why do you know you're done?

In so many other sports it's accepted to come back from injury etc and continue to compete so why should boxing be different?

Obviously you need to be careful and get more and more careful as time goes on to ensure you're not worsening and injury and keep healthy but needing to go easy for a while shouldn't always mean quitting.

What does done mean anyway?

Done with competing only or training too?

One of my coaches always infers that I might be done because I've injured my knee. Really annoys me because i've decided I've got about 8 years left and I'm sure my knee will recover by then!!!

Problem is the local boxing coaches in my gym had short careers as they quit when injured. One only had 3 fights and another had 6 fights. It plays on my mind a bit sometimes to know I've had more fights than them.

I think when some people quit and are ever after wondering "what if I'd kept going?" they don't want to see other people recover and go on because they then regret what they didn't do more.

I empathize with them though. So much more is known now about how to train without injuring yourself and how to treat injuries they'd be thinking "if only someone told me that" or "if only that physio was here when I hurt myself". I'd hate it too.