Joey Jordison Quotes

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

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.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

I could hardly walk for six months, never mind play football. I was limping for so long. I was walking with crutches - as in, properly walking - after about the first month because I thought it was much better to put my body weight on and build up the strength.

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

I was riding pillion on my friend's motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

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

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.

I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.