Stuart Scott Quotes

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

The subject we talk of is the eye of England: if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavor to take them off; he would be a strange oculist, who should pull out the eye.”

So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

I'm blind without my glasses.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

I have better peripheral vision in my left. It is quite hard to remain optimistic, but I have found the Macular Society, of whom I've been an enthusiastic supporter for nine years, tremendously helpful in providing support.

Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement.

Should I tell you one thing, I am blind from my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else's eye which was donated to me after his death. If I close my left eye, I can see no one.

My eyesight had always been good but at school I went swimming one day and the chlorine affected me badly. I was almost blinded for two weeks and from there things deteriorated. Then at the World Championship in 2007 I realised I couldn't see the back of the pocket. It was one big blur. My first two seasons as a pro it was dreadful.