Mario Lemieux Quotes

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.

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

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.

Don't get me wrong: if I was healthy, I would love to continue playing, but I'm not healthy.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

I don't think I have too many filmmaking years left since I hurt my spine and knee.

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.