Top 181 Knee Quotes

When you’re competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is – whether it’s an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it’s always hindered me.

My ‘new’ knee now feels like a bionic knee compared with my old one.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can’t get myself to go for a skill because I’m thinking, ‘My knee hurts really bad.’

They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever – I don’t care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.

I was always confident in my ability, I was always confident in the talent that I had, and I felt WWE was a very good fit for me. After it didn’t happen for a couple of years and I had a knee surgery and everything, there were times I had doubts.

It’s somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained… so long as it’s not something you have to do every game.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my – conscience.

The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were the ones quick to criticize Tim Tebow for bending a knee to pray and thank God on the field.

As an average hitter myself, I lacked that true back knee drive.

When I hurt my knee, I knew it was time to retire from dancing, and I needed a job just to pay the bills, and I ended up as a receptionist for about three-four years.

I just don’t want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I’ll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

With skirts even a mid-calf length, the legs are visible almost to the knee when you sit down. And during the summer, with bathing suits and shorts, they really take over. I think every girl should do all she can to make her legs as attractive as possible.

There’s no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter’s hair. We sit at our mother’s knee and learn who we are.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Don’t tell me that the rules prohibit you from hitting a guy up top. You have a whole target area above his knee up to his neck that you can hit.

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a lot of different things and just kind of keeping it safe.

The knee was all deformed, bloodied up and leaking with puss. I just couldn’t move it. Stiff. It was like I had a spare leg. All of my quad was skinny. It was like a pole with a pineapple in the middle of it.

I like to have long shorts, not really high, but very long, you know, almost to my knee. I like when it’s a bit baggy. I prefer that kind of style.

I’ve had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I’m very good at apres golf.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

I’ve got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

After my first knee operation, in January of ’65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

If you shoot with mechanics where you’ve got your knees bending in all the way, you’re not using your hips properly, you get all of this tendinitis and knee pain.

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I’ve been doing stunts for a long time and it’s kind of weird that I’d dislocate my knee just dancing.

I will play until my knee, my ankle or my back say ‘stop.’

I started playing golf after a broken knee led me to quit my career as an elite gymnast. It wasn’t long before I became one of the world’s top-ranked amateur players.

I’m not scared of snakes, spiders, flying… nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I’ve had four knee operations, and I’ve got tattoos, so I’ve seen a few needles in my time.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

I’ve done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I’ve done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

If I never had this knee injury I would’ve been on the field and I probably would’ve been feeling out of shape and that I’ve got to work even harder. I’d be taking shots to the chest. I could’ve died on the field.

I hope I set an example to motivate people, to motivate the new fighters, motivate the guy who doesn’t got to the gym who doesn’t train martial arts because he has a knee injury or some little things.

I’m going to be wearing the Stryker hat because I’m a walking testimonial to the fact that you can get your knee replaced and still play at a really high level and get your life back.

I know my knee’s going to heal. I know it’s going to get back. I just don’t know when.

Muhammad Ali – he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon… Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

A knee injury could put you out for a season. A concussion, you may miss a game or two. Huge difference.

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn’t wear at whatever age.

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It’s never fun to see a child hurt, even if it’s just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.

My problem isn’t death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

I started running outside when I was at ‘Biggest Loser.’ Then I got runner’s knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won’t succeed and take a knee. There’s this rhetoric about being grateful and happy that you’re getting paid for your art. We are told to put our own stuff aside, but doesn’t everyone have a job they should just shut up and do?

If you’re able to put your knee on someone’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, you have no heart. You have no pulse. If you can smile and put your hands in your pocket and the ones that are around you that didn’t do anything, are not human either.

I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don’t, just because. It’s not because they blew out their knee. It’s just because they didn’t make it.

In the cage, you can’t say, ‘Oh wait, that’s off limits.’ There’s no timeouts, there’s no substitutions and there’s no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother’s knee it’s better to appreciate what’s happening… I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.