Behind my back Quote by Tadeusz Borowski

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

— Anonymous

I had never played in front of 10,000 people in my life, coming from a little village in western Denmark. We might have 20…

— Morten Andersen

I played my last game of football when I was about 17 when I ended up in hospital, because I went in a little…

— Chris McCausland

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but…

— Roger Bannister

In Cancun, they put me up on a trapeze bar and I was carried across the ceiling over 2,000 people.

— Bridget Marquardt

Behind that picture of me, thousands and thousands of people, they suffered - more than me. They died. They lost parts of their bodies.…

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands…

— Taylor Fritz

I played the Azteca Stadium in Mexico to 100,000 people - that's something I never thought I'd do.

— Jonas Blue

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the…

— Luis Suarez

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

— Quentin Crisp

I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi…

— Sandi Toksvig

I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by…

— Colin Firth