Ed Belfour Quotes

Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.

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

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

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

I am aware that I have come to the end of my martial times, but training with pain I want no longer. My body is battered by countless trainings. I collected nine operations; the body has become prone to injury.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

I think a lot of women have back problems.

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

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

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.

A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.

One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.

My body is not the same anymore for training. It's too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.

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

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.

Me, guarding the best post players in the league, it definitely takes a toll on your body. But that's why I get massages regularly, cold tub, foot baths, rest and the weight room.

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.

I got injured just before we filmed 'Ninja Warrior,' which stopped me playing football with my mates. I haven't played football since. I'm crocked now, my back has gone and I feel like my body has packed in.

A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.