Derek Carr Quotes

I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

I fractured my left foot.

It was very frustrating, sitting on the couch, not doing anything. I couldn't pick up anything with my left hand. I was in a soft cast all the way up to my elbow. It wasn't fun. A lot of TV. I don't wish it upon anybody.

I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.

I break my two feet seven times.

I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.

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

I've played with sprained ankles before, bruises, stuff like that.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

I wasn't able to explode, jump, run - not even walk without pain being in the back of my leg. Every time I bent my leg, even in a walking motion, I was wondering what was wrong with me. But I stuck with it.

I could hardly walk for six months, never mind play football. I was limping for so long. I was walking with crutches - as in, properly walking - after about the first month because I thought it was much better to put my body weight on and build up the strength.