Apolo Ohno Quotes

Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

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

I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.

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

I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.

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

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

I was in the middle of my match and I was coming to the net and all I remember was hearing this loud pop and everything was slow after that. I just remember trying to take a step and my leg just not being able to hold me and I went down.

If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.