Knee Surgery Quotes

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

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

I eagerly await the day when there is a replacement for the meniscus.

When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.

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.

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

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes - my kids, high school kids - get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

I don't really like knees.

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

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 replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

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 am not crazy about my knees.

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

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

Our seniors shouldn't have to check their stock balance before they can get knee surgery.

My microfracture was handled like a routine arthroscopic surgery. They thought it was a 6-to-8 week deal. Now we know, from Amare Stoudemire to Kenyon Martin, that it's a longer deal.

(Britney Spears) went in for knee surgery and came out a little top heavy.

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

If you want to run the read option with your starting quarterback that's had two knee surgeries, that's on you.

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.