Leonardo Bonucci Quotes

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

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

You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

When I was born, I had a birth injury in my second and third vertebrae. It gave me what they called spastic paralysis, which is actually cerebral palsy.

I had hip surgery in America because I'd had problems during my last two years in Europe. They said out there that my hip was broken and I didn't know about it.