Acl Quotes

#1. I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

Shawn Johnson

#2. In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

Shawn Johnson

#3. But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

Donovan McNabb

#4. I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

Terrell Owens

#5. Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

Josh Hartnett

#6. 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.

Shawn Johnson

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

David Stern

#8. I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.

Adrian Peterson

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

Joe Rogan

#10. I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

Robert Griffin III

#11. I tore my ACL playing basketball.

Paul Dano

#12. There's much sentiment and educational value to be found in our inherited traditions.

Fennel Hudson

#13. Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#14. I hope this works. Its such a shame, both so young. I thought we would've had more time. I thought the Fates would've let the prophecy play it self out. The way it should be.

Candace Knoebel

#15. The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Tony Snow

#16. James had no intentions; he could not afford to have any; he could not afford to rope another person to his saddle. All he could do was keep his head down and get his work done.

Jo Baker

#17. My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

Fernando Pessoa

#18. Having the rug pulled from under one, and flying magic carpets -- cousin events?

Leslie Miklosy

#19. I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

Michel Faber

#20. The only two places you stand on receiving lines are funerals and weddings. There was probably something poignant in that fact, but Maya couldn't imagine what it could be. She

Harlan Coben

#21. You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

John Lennon

#22. One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

Anne Rice

#23. I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.

Wendell Berry

#24. For members of the general public might not care about Wolf-Rayet stars in the Quintuplet Cluster, but they definitely saw why having hot rocks fall on one's head was a good thing to avoid.

Neal Stephenson

#25. There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the [actors] who made that go away.

David Rasche