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.
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.
There was a complete rupture in my left calf.
I've strained some muscles here and there, in my throat, even my jaw. Nothing that doesn't heal quickly.
For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.
You've got to be careful with any injury, but I mean, if you research hamstrings, if you know anything about hamstrings, you've definitely got to be careful.
It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.
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.
Muscle is constantly being used - constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred - I mean, everybody would have cancer almost.
I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.
In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.
I've had 30 hamstring tears.
If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.
It's incredible the muscle damage you do in a sprint. You don't see it after the line, because we're smiling. But if you see the tent that we're in straight afterwards, you just collapse.
The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.
Steroids build your muscles, but they don't build your tendons or ligaments.
I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
