Kevin McCloud Quotes

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.

Crashes are the worst thing because your wounds stick to you, so you are sweating into your road rash all day and when you try to sleep your wounds are sticking to the bed sheets. It is part of the job and we know the risks.

I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.

I've broken my ankle in two spots. Fortunately, it was a relatively clean break, so it's remained in position. The bone has remained in position. I don't require surgery. I will have to rest it, though. It's a broken ankle.

Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It's going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you'll do it.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

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

The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover.

I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

Ribs are a real tricky thing: you don't really know when they're going to heal, especially when mine weren't broken. I don't know what it was, exactly - either a deep bruise or cartilage.

I know my knee's going to heal. I know it's going to get back. I just don't know when.

When you get hit to the body, you don't even worry about your face no more.

I've suffered rib injuries, but I've never had a broken one. I've dislocated it and popped it, and even that, a big step down from broken, it hurts so bad. But you can't really move. You can't even fully breathe and take a deep breath of air.

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

I tend to hold on to injuries a lot longer than others.

When you sprain an ankle, you're kind of off-balance a bit.

When I first started to learn to run the ropes, that was really painful for me: it's just cable wire wrapped in tape. It bruised my ribs so bad, it hurt to be hugged; it hurt to lay down.

I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.