Dennis Skinner Quotes

Every job carries occupational hazards.

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

I always took a lot of pride in being a safe wrestle. I never injured anyone.

My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

There's always more employers can do to protect their employees.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

Safety is always paramount at WWE.

Everybody in wrestling is looking at the information coming in on concussions. Everyone from the NFL to the WWE to TNA to the youth soccer groups around the country are realizing that there are dangers that weren't previously known.

I am rarely injured.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.

I think the one thing I can say is not to play through concussions. I think that's unwise.

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.