Sofia Helin Quotes

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man', and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

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

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

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

I was probably about 13 or 14. I got pulled from a rope swing and some boy kicked me in the head and fractured my skull. It was a horrible time.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

When I was 11 I had to umpire a game. I got hit in the head and got knocked out. The ball was hit straight back, hit the bail and knocked my head.

Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you're going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can't walk away from.

We show some more complicated cases. We show problems with fillers that were injected into the nose and the complications that caused. We show dog bites to the nose and the face and the reconstruction. There are some interesting stories, but they're more of learning lessons.

Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.

Have I ever left the field with a broken nose, black eye? Yes, numerous times. I've had a broken nose and a few black eyes. It's part and parcel of the game, really.

I've been concussed I don't know how many times, yeah it's taken a pretty good toll on the body.

I've hit my head on the rim a couple number of times, back in high school.

I've boxed on with cuts, broken jaws, everything.

The blast blew most of my teeth out, I have screws and plates in my face, I lost the eye.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

I never had a concussion playing rugby.