Shaun Livingston Quotes

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.

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.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

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

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

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

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you're never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It's broken, it's got 16 screws in it. I'm not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.

I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.

I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

Anyone who was been injured for a long period can emphasise how happy you are when you are able to be back on the pitch.

I would just like to learn to control my limbs.

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

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

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.