Mark Hunt Quotes

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

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

If you have injuries, it's tough.

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

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

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

I've had so many injuries.

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

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

It's tough to play with an injury.

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

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.

I ripped both hamstrings.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

I've had a lot of injuries.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

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

I've been through my fair share of injuries.

I've been hurt every year I played football.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

The biggest thing I learned is that when Dana says retire, you should retire. Otherwise, you will blow your knee out before your next fight.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.