Wanderlei Silva Quotes

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

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.

At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.

You can only fall so far through a tree before the limbs become abrasive to your body.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

If you fell down, you were dead.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

It will always remain a dangerous sport.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

I've got two kids and a missus. I don't want problems after boxing. You need to be careful.

My earliest childhood memories are just of me falling and getting injuries.

I am rarely injured.

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