Kyle Carpenter Quotes

You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.

When I was injured after 'Kill Bill' I had a year where I not just couldn't make any money but I couldn't swim, I couldn't surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn't do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

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

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

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

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

I wasn't a hero. I just got shot.

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.

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

When you get injured for a long time, it's not nice because you are out of the team and not involved anymore.

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

In 2012, I got hit by an IED in Afghanistan.

I may never have a normal life again.

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.