I had a friend who was an athletic trainer (or in that department) at a major college/university. This was years ago. He tended to baseball, hockey and basketball players mostly. I don’t recall football but I suppose that was in his duties as well. Anyway, he told me basketball players were by far the biggest whiners. Not only privileged but they cried at the smallest injury. Hockey, of course, was the opposite. Stitch me up and let’s play.
I can easily see Basketball players being the biggest whiners.
My sport is soccer. Folks accuse soccer players of being wimps, but the game gets a bad rep due to divers.
There’s a video on YouTube that has a compilation of soccer deaths on the pitch. I believe it had over 40 recorded incidents there. A good bit are heart attacks due to running. The worst one was a guy getting stabbed in the head with the cleats of another player.
Infamous NHL grinder Claude Lemieux had a brother Jocelyn who played for the Chicago Blackhawks for several years. He took a skate to the face during a game and needed 120 stitches to fix the carnage. He came back out for the next period and finished the game.