Philip Hone Quotes

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.

The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.

If you put a brick on my head and break it, I will be fine.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

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

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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

[Grover Cleveland] had a sort of patent way of shaking hands which he probably invented for self-protection. He grabbed the visitor's hand, gave it a slight squeeze, and dropped it like a hot potato. He never under any circumstances whatsoever permitted a visitor to grip his large, fat hand.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

My husband had a stalker, briefly.

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

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body.

You can only fall so far through a tree before the limbs become abrasive to your body.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

Getting hit is not cool.

I've been hurt every year I played football.

I don't like getting hit.