Ronnie Coleman Quotes

My back is permanently messed up.

The biggest problem is my back.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

My back isn't great.

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

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

My back has always been a problem from when I played.

The back, it's frustrating. It's hard to figure out. You go to bed feeling good, and you wake up tight. It seems like, when you have a bad back, your whole body feels like crap.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

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

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

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

I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.

My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.

My back was starting to deteriorate and basically what happened was I just couldn't walk after a couple of matches here and there. I never had an MRI and I never knew what was going on in my body for so long, and then it was coming to point where I was always wrestling and not being able to walk after.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

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.

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

In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs - and bad shots - for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain.

I've had tendinitis since college.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.