Liza Minnelli Quotes

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.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

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

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

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

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'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

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 tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

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.

I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything hurts.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

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

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

The truth is my dad was a lovely man who had to retire early from his job as an engineer because he had osteoporosis. It meant he was forced to wear a harness and could hardly breathe.

I hardly do any exercise because of my arthritis and my joints.

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

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