Kell Brook Quotes

Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

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

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

Injuries make you stronger.

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

Life was very tough, and there were times I thought I might not be able to play again.

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.

All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.

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.

I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

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

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

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.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

When I broke my leg, I never thought I'd ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.