Ronnie Coleman Quotes

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

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'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

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

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

I've had back problems basically my whole career.

My back is permanently messed up.

Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.