Richard Dean Anderson Quotes

I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.

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 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.

I've had so many injuries.

I've had a lot of injuries.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

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.

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

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

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.

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.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I don't think people understand what microfracture surgery is. It's pretty serious. A lot of basketball players get it in their knees, and if they do bounce back, it takes a while.

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

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.