Chris Kamara Quotes

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

My back is permanently messed up.

My back isn't great.

I've had back problems basically my whole career.

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.

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

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

The biggest problem is my back.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

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.

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.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.

But I do hope that medicine continues to improve and, in 10 years maybe, they'll be able to fix my body better than they did for the poor guys who are crippled up from playing in the NFL in the '60s and the '70s.

I played with a herniated disk that I didn't find out was herniated until I tore my meniscus.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.

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.

You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.