Don Drysdale Quotes

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

I've had so many injuries.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

When I got hurt and had surgery on my left shoulder, my arm was in a sling for over a month but I could play Ping-Pong right-handed. I started playing and got addicted.

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.

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

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.

All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I've had a lot of injuries.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

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

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

There were times while I was injured at Villa when I felt like I was a ghost.

People don't realize I tore my rotator cuff when I was 12 or 13. At that time, being so young, we decided just to not have surgery.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

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

I've been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I've prevailed through it.

I have an eight-inch plate in my shoulder with eight screws.

I think people underestimate when you have a brace on your knee how much that truly restricts you.