It would take some doing
I've been flight instructing on Cessnas for years in an area densely populated with Cessna-owning flight schools. I've seen a number of Cessnas with damaged nose gear (and accompanying firewall damage), but the worse injury I've ever seen to main gear is flat tires.
They can take a hell of a lot. When students flare too high, sometimes you just let them drop the airplane on, so the kick in the pants shows them they did something wrong and the instructor's lack of action shows them it's their own job to fly the plane. I will protect the nosewheel and kick the airplane straight so the gear doesn't have to take a side load, but otherwise the sprung steel does the job.