Jose Canseco Quotes

I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I was, indeed, forced to take a break for two years. I was down with arthritis and hormonal imbalance. To add to my woes, I started putting on a lot of weight in no time.

Over the years, I've hurt my thumb, separated my shoulder, and injured my back, but not too bad. Actually, my back was hurt pretty bad. I had to take an ambulance and was in bed for a week.

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

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

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

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

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

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

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.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

If you have injuries, it's tough.

I've always hated exercise, but because I've had problems with my back, I now do Pilates, and I walk a lot.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

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.

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

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

I feel like, with how medicine is evolving, something will be out there soon that can help you heal from arthritis. That might be what helps my longevity and pushes me to keep performing.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

When I was in my 20s, I was always sick. I was always feeling exhausted.