Terry Funk Quotes

I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

Radical surgery is never fun.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

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.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

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've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pushing up against the back of my heart - and because I have heart issues, they thought it was this whole big deal. So I spent a good three days in the hospital, two nights in the ICU.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I've had tendinitis since college.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

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 had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.