Penny Hardaway Quotes

I don't think people understand what microfracture surgery is. It's pretty serious. A lot of basketball players get it in their knees, and if they do bounce back, it takes a while.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.

Thankfully, hamstring injuries don't take that long to heal.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

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

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

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

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.

WWE was pretty wonderful to me because I was able to rehab my foot 100 percent before I was released.

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.

It's always good to hear when players aren't out for as long as you thought they would.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again.

When I left WWE, I had surgery on my foot. I had drop foot, where my foot was totally paralyzed. I had a tendon transfer and got nine screws in my foot.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

There's no timeline from ACLs. People give you five, six, seven, eight months to come back.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

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

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

I've had so many injuries.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.