Dominique Wilkins Quotes

I've had asthma my entire life.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

My sister, Dottie, suffered from COPD for quite a few years before we knew what it was. Hers was a form of emphysema, and she was 48 when she passed away.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I've had tendinitis since college.

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

I was born with lots of deformities.

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

I'm an asthmatic so if you want to ask someone about asthma, ask a doctor. I'm asthmatic but I'm not an expert on it.

I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

The truth is my dad was a lovely man who had to retire early from his job as an engineer because he had osteoporosis. It meant he was forced to wear a harness and could hardly breathe.

The metabolic disturbances are now part of my life.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.