Quotes About Injury

It's been a long time in recovery. It's the first time I'm in this position, the first time I have any major injury. So it's been tough for me mentally.

I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

I have learned the hard way that concussions are not fun.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.

I don't feel hatred for Zuniga.

Every job carries occupational hazards.

I don't think kids should be heading real balls.

I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I'm not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through.

Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.

Stuff happens. We perform at such a high level so many days a week that things are going to happen. We just have to do the best we can to take care of each other and to let a person know that we're there for them when they do get hurt.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already

The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war.

No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.

No great desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.

I don't mean to hurt you,' she assured him. `In fact, I told Lucius I did not wish them to hurt you more than was needful, and I do hope they did not?' `Oh, not at all, ma'am! I like being hit over the head with cudgels!' he said sardonically.

away from Damerel's advance it was seen that he was dead lame.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

My grandmother worked as a front-line service worker in the hospitals of Toronto Centre and broke her back doing it in the process.