Loss of Mobility Quotes

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

The worst part about ALS is that one day, you're able to brush your teeth; then you'll never be able to brush your teeth again. One day, you're able to walk - you're never going to walk again.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

I've seen past fighters who don't seem all there anymore, can hardly walk around or look like the Tin Man, they've just been through the wringer.

As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

Not playing guitar has been the hardest thing about having ALS.

It sucks getting old.

Not to be able to move around or do things without thinking - that's tough. I may end up that way, but if I do, I hope to hell my intellect will take over, and I'll find some kind of joy and a way to contribute.

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

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

I can't drive anymore.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can't really feel it or move it? Well, that's what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

It's really hard being old - it's horrible.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.