Dick Dale Quotes

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

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

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

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.

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

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

I had been wrestling with a fracture in my elbow and a slight tear in my triceps for quite some time, but it was continuing to get worse. As I worked through it, I ended up dislocating my shoulder and tearing my labrum. All of these injuries were on the same arm, so things like working out or even sleeping became increasingly difficult.

I ripped both hamstrings.

I've had a lot of injuries.

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

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

I tore my biceps and had two hernia surgeries.

I broke my leg and cracked my pelvis.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.

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

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

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

I've had so many injuries.