Bear Grylls Quotes

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

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.

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

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.

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

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.

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.

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

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

I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

I was riding pillion on my friend's motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went numb, I couldn't feel my body.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

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.

All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

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 find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.