Leon Day Quotes

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

It's tough to play with an injury.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.

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

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.

You've got to be careful of guys trying to chop-block you. You know, running backs, the receivers. You've got to just hope that your knees are fine and you can avoid those chop blocks.

I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

I haven't been injured at all. It's just one of those things which does happen in football.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

Unfortunately, I used to play in goal, and I broke my hand. Two fingers. The ball hit me and bent my fingers back. I used to play every Sunday. I was quite competitive.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.