Michelle Wolf Quotes

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

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

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

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.

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

When you sign for a new club, you just want to play, and when injury stops you, it is frustrating.

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

It was set to be my first WrestleMania, which is obviously a lifetime goal. To have that taken away from me right on the approach - we were something like three weeks out - was devastating. It certainly changed me as a person, that process.

My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.

When you are injured - and injured for a while - it is hard. You have to go to the training ground and watch everyone go out to play.

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

It's hard to see a player go down and it's hard to see him get hurt.

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

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.