Bret Bielema Quotes

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 had many orthopedic surgeries.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

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 jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.

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

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 had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

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 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.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

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