Quotes About Injury

I've done a lot of ladder matches in my career and usually you come out a little more sore than you would in a regular match.

I think it was the down point in my career. I went to Shrewsbury on loan, I came back within a month and hadn't played a game - injured and feeling sorry for myself really.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

I once procrastinated and kept delaying a spinal cord operation as a response to a back injury—and was completely cured of the back problem after a hiking vacation in the Alps, followed by weight-lifting sessions. These psychologists and economists want me to kill my naturalistic instinct (the inner b****t detector) that allowed me to delay the elective operation and minimize the risks—an insult to the antifragility of our bodies.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible." "Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system." "This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing." "Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?

This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway--like the hole in the trunk of my neighbor's tree: at once a natural shelter, haven for small creatures, but also evidence of injury, an entrance for decay.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

His broken body wanted to hurt, but it was forbidden to. He remembered thinking, in his opiate-induced delirium, how sad it must be for a body to want something so badly and to be completely denied.

I was on my bike and got hit by some damfoo' in a Mercedes.

YOU HAVE WOUNDED MY HEART FOREVER!

How come you walk so funny? I was frying some chicken in the pan and the grease exploded, it burned my legs. I thought maybe you had war wounds. No, the chicken did it.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new body may be provided--for a fee. (In the event of your murder, you will be furnished with a new body at the expense of your killer.)

Some are dealing with the injured chargers: it's a tense and bloody business, for damaged equoids don't simply scream piteously and wait to die like horses.)

I hadn't realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I'd feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after this.

I can't, I said. I threw my back out masturbating.

Perhaps that was the worst kind of monster: the kind who had blue eyes and small constellations of freckles, and yet was humanized by fingers made knobby by injury or illness. The fact was, Hollywood was awash with exactly

But coming back from injury, is like starting to exercise for the first time. You can't get stuck in straight away because you might do yourself a mischief; you have to be sensible.