Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.

I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

I get treatment every day, just to keep on top of my body and help me recover, and it's really helped me a lot.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

If you have injuries, it's tough.

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.

I've never broken a bone, I've never even sprained anything, so to be overseas and have my clavicle broken in two places was a bang-up job done by me.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.

The truth is my dad was a lovely man who had to retire early from his job as an engineer because he had osteoporosis. It meant he was forced to wear a harness and could hardly breathe.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

I am so worried about my shoulder, which aches now as I write. The pain is frightening because of its intensity. I want so much to get rid of this pain. I must be strong. I must be strong.