Richard Krajicek Quotes

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

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

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

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.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I don't think people understand what microfracture surgery is. It's pretty serious. A lot of basketball players get it in their knees, and if they do bounce back, it takes a while.

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 don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.