Peter Kay Quotes

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

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

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

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

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'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

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

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

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.

When I was 25, it was painful. I was getting out of bed in the morning and couldn't walk. But when you are young, you don't care; it will pass. But one year after another, it's like, 'Come on, give me a break!'

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.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.