Quotes About Injury

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

I've never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

At the heart of Scots culture, though, was an awful interdiction of such emotional closeness between men and women; a terrible separation inflicted by a distorted football-obsessed emotional tyranny, such a deep injury of the soul.

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that's why I didn't play.

Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit.

I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally a tiger will object to too close an approach to its cubs or to a kill that it is guarding. The objection invariably takes the form of growling, and if this does not prove effective itis followed by short rushes accompanied by terrifying roars. If these warnings are disregarded, the blame for any injury inflicted rests entirely with the intruder"- Jim Corbett

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?

I broke my arm in 3 places so I wont be going back to those places.

To add insult to injury there's a television at the end of the ward. It's unavoidable, and even more unbearable than usual as it's constantly tuned to ITV, so there are adverts. I wonder if hell is like this? I'd definitely prefer lakes of sulphur and at least being able to swim about in them.