Gregory Benford Quotes

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

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

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

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've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

The problem with my shoulders was something I inherited from my dad. The left one would pop out and then pop back in - absolute agony - during almost every game last season, so I had surgery to put it right last summer.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

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.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

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

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

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

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.

I blew one of my knees. I've torn ligaments and tendons, ankles, both shoulders, both wrists.

I broke my shoulder, or my collarbone, I shouldn't say my shoulder, and I had surgery, six screws and a plate in here.

I do have six anchors put in my labrum; I tore it in half, so it was pretty major surgery.

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