John Brown Gordon Quotes

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

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

I've never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.

I thought he had been shot.

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

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.

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

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

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 was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

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

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.

I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.

When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

I break orbital bones.

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.