Forrest Griffin Quotes

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

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

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

I've had tendinitis since college.

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

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

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

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

You don't know what a broken jaw feels like until it happens.

I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.