Tito Ortiz Quotes

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

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

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

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

I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.

I've had, like, 10 surgeries in my life: four or so on my knee, my hip and my nose a couple of times.

I remember the original injury happening in 1993, when I first was in WCW, and I've had a few neck injuries since, but with no pain. There was some pain, here and there, but not much. Eventually, it turned into a major problem, with my legs not moving well, so I had to have surgery done.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

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

I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.

I broke my shoulder, or my collarbone, I shouldn't say my shoulder, and I had surgery, six screws and a plate in here.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

I've had a lot of injuries.

When I left WWE, I had surgery on my foot. I had drop foot, where my foot was totally paralyzed. I had a tendon transfer and got nine screws in my foot.

So much of my career was affected by injuries. Not just the well documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things. Injuries hit me hard, and they always seemed to come at key times.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

I had suffered a multitude of injuries, as most guys in the business do. Most of them came at the end of my career.

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

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.

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