Olivier Martinez Quotes

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.

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.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

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

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

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

I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.

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

The India series wasn't the only reason I retired. It was the culmination of 18 months where things had probably changed in my life.

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.

It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.

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.

You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything.

I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.

When you have raced for 20 years and one day you have to stop, it's not easy, especially when you are hit with big problems.

It's hard to see a player go down and it's hard to see him get hurt.

I had to sit out for 21 weeks. I got to feel what it would be like if I didn't play, and I can't imagine not playing.

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

It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.