Dave Barry Quotes

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

When I was 11 I had to umpire a game. I got hit in the head and got knocked out. The ball was hit straight back, hit the bail and knocked my head.

Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you're going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can't walk away from.

Every night you go out there, you get hurt. It's really the easiest way to say it. People can describe wrestling however they want to, but your body is flesh and bone, and it's not meant to be slammed on wood and steel.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

I think gymnastics can be a really brutal sport. I don't think it's supposed to be a brutal sport.

I had injuries, but I didn't get them on purpose.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

I was injured at the end of 'Kill Bill.' I hit the ground, instead of hitting the mat, pretty hard and busted my ribs and had to have surgery. I was being blown out of a trailer in a harness and actually landed on my coordinator instead - who broke my fall a little! My arm smacked into the ground and obliterated one of the ligaments.

I don't like the way the cage is set up. I think it's really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.