Physical Cost Quotes

When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t.

Injuries are part of the job.

You can't do everything I did for all those years and not sustain some injuries.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.

I'm not really worried about anybody or anything. I think I have a lot to offer. It's just, with your rookie year, your body, it's just a lot. It may seem foolish, all those dunks and stuff: they look cool, but it takes a toll on your body, for sure.

Pain is part of the sport.

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

I have a ton of broken baby hairs in front. It just comes with the territory of being a soccer player.

I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for anyone to think any differently would be a big mistake.