Jimi Manuwa Quotes

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

A hamstring is definitely nothing to play with. There are chronic hamstring injuries where guys think it is fine, and they go out there and try to run and pull it again.

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

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.

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.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

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.

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.

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

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.

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.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

It's always good to hear when players aren't out for as long as you thought they would.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

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.

It's hard to see a player go down and it's hard to see him get hurt.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

My microfracture was handled like a routine arthroscopic surgery. They thought it was a 6-to-8 week deal. Now we know, from Amare Stoudemire to Kenyon Martin, that it's a longer deal.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

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

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.