Jimi Manuwa Quotes

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

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

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

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.

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

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

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

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

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

It's hard to see a player go down and it's hard to see him get hurt.

As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn't play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.

It is always a shame when players are injured.

In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.

Who knew I was blowing my Achilles?

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

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

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.