Gail Kim Quotes

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.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

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

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

I broke my sixth vertebrae.

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

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

My back is permanently messed up.

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.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain.