Quotes About Injury

My body was torn apart by an enemy hand grenade... upon arriving at Camp Bastion, I was labeled P.E.A. - patient expired on arrival. I flat-lined at Walter Reed.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I had finally come to the point where I was catching the momentum but then I had torn my ACL, which is kind of the story of my life where I keep getting injured from an ACL.

There is nothing worse for a bowler than knowing you cannot give your all. If you try to, you can mess yourself up for the future, so you are torn between that and protecting your body. You simply cannot do both.

I had a torn labrum as I exited The Ultimate Fighter, and I was 22 years old.

I played almost two years with a torn meniscus.

The muscles in my lower abdomen had torn off my pelvis.

I've landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I've torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

Seeing the news on 'FOX Sports Live' of yet another baseball player on crutches always reminds me of the September night in 2005 when I tore my Achilles tendon in Toronto.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

A book fell on my head. I can only blame my shelf.

Ik gleed uit, mijn benen knikten om op de gladde kiezelweg en op het moment dat ik neerviel brak er iets in me wat nooit meer gelijmd zou kunnen worden.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.

Oh, man," she said. "That didn't, like, take off your real hand, did it?

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

the benevolent paternalism of white guilt, I said, had injured the self-esteem, if not the souls, of minorities in ways that the malevolent paternalism of white racism never had.

She uses that shampoo," he sighed. "What shampoo?" "The one with honey in it." Ric's eyes crossed. "Oh, my God." "She was sitting in that tree, her leg bleeding out, and all I could think about was how good her hair smelled.

I'm not talking about them. We told you before, Smith, we wouldn't play if her"—he pointed at Sissy—"or her"—he pointed at Ronnie—"were playing." Mitch looked at her. "Uh…Sissy?" Sissy rounded on the coach. "I can't believe you are still holding that against us. It's been years!" "He was in traction for three months. A shifter! In traction!" "He was in my way!

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

Ear cartilage is similarly underserved by the vascular system, so if you plan on picking a fight with Mike Tyson, do practice good wound toilet.)