Baron Vaughn Quotes

I've had tendinitis since college.

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

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

Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

There is a good chance that, at 60, I will be in a wheelchair, but hey, I signed up for that. I know that.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.