Mojo Rawley Quotes

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.

Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.

Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

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

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.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.

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

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

I've had so many injuries.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

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.