Theo Walcott Quotes

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

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

I do have six anchors put in my labrum; I tore it in half, so it was pretty major surgery.

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.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

I want the opportunity to play pain-free.

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

I have an eight-inch plate in my shoulder with eight screws.

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.

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.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

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.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

I've had so many injuries.