Shannon Sharpe Quotes

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

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

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

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

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

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.'

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 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.

I've had so many injuries.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

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

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

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

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

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 haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

I do have six anchors put in my labrum; I tore it in half, so it was pretty major surgery.

I have had about 15 operations due to the wrestling profession, and I have a problem with an abdominal hernia.

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