Gunnar Peterson Quotes

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

That's about the 1,000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.

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.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

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

The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

Hamstring flexibility and hip mobility for me are the two most important factors on the field.

Any time you're recovering from an injury, your main focus is trying to get back into shape, really just getting healthy again.

There's no timeline from ACLs. People give you five, six, seven, eight months to come back.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

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 like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

As soon as the doctor said I could start training again, I was on the treadmill the very next day. Once I got back into it, I worked out two or three times daily.

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.

I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

Flexibility depends upon your range of motion and will enable you to do more day-to-day tasks with comfort and ease.

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.

I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.