Ryan Lochte Quotes

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.

I was in the middle of my match and I was coming to the net and all I remember was hearing this loud pop and everything was slow after that. I just remember trying to take a step and my leg just not being able to hold me and I went down.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

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

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

I've had tendinitis since college.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.

I blew one of my knees. I've torn ligaments and tendons, ankles, both shoulders, both wrists.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

My knee is screwed. I had the meniscus cut out.

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

Who knew I was blowing my Achilles?

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.