Quotes About Injury

When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To be the storyteller for basketball, period.

I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.

You know, I spent parts of six seasons in the minor leagues and I dealt with some injuries there, I saw a lot of things. I had the safety net of being a first-round pick, so I didn't maybe necessarily experience some of that hardship firsthand, but I watched it break a lot of guys. The strain that it puts on you and your family, it's really tough.

At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.

I didn't want to keep fighting and risking injury to my body when the pay wasn't where I needed it to be. I made a strategic decision to give it up after I fought Tito. I always planned on coming back when the sport was able to right itself and had a brighter future.

Colonel Woodcock obviously belonged to the 'stiff upper lip' school of army behaviour: after shouting at his wife to keep watching at the window, he got shot himself and staggered back into the bedroom, telling her, 'It's alright darling, they have only hit outlying portions of me.' Woodcock, in fact, had been hit four times - but he subsequently recovered.

A third of all loggers in the Northwest will be seriously injured at some time during their careers. According to medical insurance records in Washington and Oregon, only two lines of work are more dangerous than logging - professional football and crop-dusting.

Doing light-weight overhead squats with a narrow stance, in combination with Cossack squats (page 87), for 3 months is what helped me get 99% toward passing the "campfire test" above. My left ankle is still sadly bone on bone.

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

I was bitten by an octopus.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

I have the oldest whiplash in the business.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.

That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.

I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.

As I've opened up, the less negative comments there are. Ninety-eight percent of followers love what I'm doing for fashion, for tennis, for coming back from an injury. They follow the part that inspires them.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.