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Quotes About Injury

My thu-umb!" explained Julie. "Oh-h-h-h, t'urts.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I just think humiliation really causes more harm than maybe being physically beaten.
~ Fannie Flagg
The war was over, but it had taken its toll. More than 400,000 Americans had been killed and 1.7 million had been hurt in some way. And most people didn't know about the 39 WASPs who had been killed or that 16 Army nurses had died by enemy fire, and 67 had been taken prisoner, including Nurse Dottie Frakes, who was held in a Japanese concentration camp for more than three years.
~ Fannie Flagg
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
~ Mary Roach
My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.
~ Amy Purdy
Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.
~ Enzo Amore
My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!
~ Prince Royce
I fell off a bridge when I was, like, 17 years old and got electrocuted by 15,000 volts of electricity - fell 30 feet.
~ Vic Mensa
Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.
~ Merlin Olsen
Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
~ Derrick Lewis
When I was 16, I'd been cast in 'Fast Food Nation.' And while I was playing in a charity baseball game, I ended up breaking my arm about a week before filming was starting.
~ Glen Powell
Before I got hurt, I was on the road five days a week and then I'd come home for a day and a half. And some of those times, I'd be filming Total Divas, so at some point I was working seven days a week, which I was cool. I loved it.
~ Tyson Kidd
When you get into the Finals, I don't think anybody is completely healthy.
~ Bam Adebayo
I can't play 'Madden' without an index finger!
~ Jason Pierre-Paul
My mom told me that she dislocated her fingers three times. And my dad: four times.
~ Evan Fournier
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
~ Peter Higgs
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
~ Socrates
My lone concussion occurred in 2003 against Denver. I was spinning off block and right when I spun, I hit Clinton Portis with my head turned sideways. I hit him and I hit the ground. That was first big one where I was like 'Whoa.' Back then, it was no big deal.
~ Brian Urlacher
My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.
~ John Hurt
Injuries weren't the reason why I retired. I retired on my own terms.
~ Adam Goodes
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
~ John Burroughs
As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn't play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.
~ Carson Wentz
As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.
~ Amanda de Cadenet