Richard Leakey Quotes

Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

When I was injured after 'Kill Bill' I had a year where I not just couldn't make any money but I couldn't swim, I couldn't surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn't do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.