Channing Tatum Quotes

My earliest childhood memories are just of me falling and getting injuries.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.

When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

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

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

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

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

It's great playing a sport where you don't get hit in the head.

If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

If you have injuries, it's tough.