Quotes About Adversity

I had two big injuries, one in my back my rookie year and when I was in Denver, my knee.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

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

While we were shooting 'Baahubali,' I had a knee injury, and a few months later, Prabhas injured his shoulder. Those two injuries meant a break of around five months from the schedule. So around that time, I was doing absolutely nothing, and Neeraj Pandey called me with 'Baby.'

People didn't want to accept that I was injured. I played on a bad knee, a really bad knee, for a long time. I actually put team before me and played when I was hurt, but people still would dog me.

A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.

Back in 2014, I injured my left knee badly.

If I never had this knee injury I would've been on the field and I probably would've been feeling out of shape and that I've got to work even harder. I'd be taking shots to the chest. I could've died on the field.

After my last fight with Woodley, I ended up hurting my knee so I was out for almost six months.

In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.

My two years in Boston were very difficult to deal with, especially when you know that you still can play. But my knee was causing so much problems.

The worst injury I've ever had was a knee in the back when I was 20 or 21, in training at Reading. I couldn't sit down or lie down for a week. I just lay on my front for a week.

I like a challenge and I like being able to prove to me and everyone else that I can do crazy things - even with a dodgy knee.

Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

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

I've had a lot of problems with my arms, with my knees.

I went through three surgeries on my hip and knees.

Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.

Before, back in the day when I was young, when you had some problems, you dealt with it with your hands. No one had a knife.

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.