Sterling Marlin Quotes

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.

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

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

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

I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

I never had any major surgeries or anything like that. I've had a few career-threatening injuries, but I bounced back from them.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

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 mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.

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

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 was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

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.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

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 spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.