Quotes About Injury

On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.

Being in a boot is not fun. Being on crutches is not fun.

People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

I've had cumulative concussions and realized that's something you carry with you.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

Guys taking damage need to be compensated for the shortness of their career.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

We got tables they're going through constantly, chair shots, all this, very dangerous maneuvers where you can possibly break your neck or something like that.

I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.

When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

It was my Old Trafford debut and it lasted about 60 minutes and my left leg and left ankle sort of gave way on me from a tackle from behind.

If your ankle is damaged and you get another heavy tackle on it the pain is always with you.

I got a pommel in my eye. A pommel is the end of a sword - not the sharp end, the other end. It wasn't actually a sword fight. I was rugby tackling somebody but we hadn't rehearsed with all the kit on so suddenly there's a whole other part of the equation and that did really hurt.

I've never wrestled Kylie Rae, I've never wrestled Nyla Rose. I'm more familiar with Kylie Rae, I know her, she was my room-mate in Japan. I was in the match where she broke her collar bone in Japan, I was her tag partner.

I've suffered rib injuries, but I've never had a broken one. I've dislocated it and popped it, and even that, a big step down from broken, it hurts so bad. But you can't really move. You can't even fully breathe and take a deep breath of air.

If I have one message to young swimmers about taking care of their bodies, it's definitely take care of your shoulders.

I've got to take care of the knee to finish the season healthy.