Logan Mankins Quotes

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.

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.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

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.

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

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

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

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

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

I eagerly await the day when there is a replacement for the meniscus.

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.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

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

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

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.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

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

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again.

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

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

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.