Gabriel Batistuta Quotes

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

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

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

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.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.

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.

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

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.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

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

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

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

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

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.

I've had tendinitis since college.

I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.