Geoff Dyer Quotes

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

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.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.

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 message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it.

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've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

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

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone to injuries. That's why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind.

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

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.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

I've always been working with my rehab people, just to keep my body loose and fluid.

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.