Bruce Forsyth Quotes

I hate being immobile.

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.

… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior.