Maria Sharapova Quotes

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.

Any time you're recovering from an injury, your main focus is trying to get back into shape, really just getting healthy again.

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

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.

Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.

It's tough to play with an injury.

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.

I've been through so much. I mean, after an ACL, you have to learn how to walk again, how to run again, you have to get your head strong again.

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

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

I played with a lot of foot injuries.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

There's no timeline from ACLs. People give you five, six, seven, eight months to come back.

That's about the 1,000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.

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 go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

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.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.