Zoe Bell Quotes

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

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

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

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

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

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

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

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.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

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

When you get injured for a long time, it's not nice because you are out of the team and not involved anymore.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'