People get injured fighting fires, ... Last night, we had a guy cut a tendon in his hand. He'll be off for six months. Somebody has to come in and fill his position.
Quotes about tendon (14 Quotes)
She's got a couple of tears in the upper third of the tendon, which spells retirement. It's not horrible, but a filly like this, the way she's come around as of late, there's not even a question. It's just a shame. She couldn't have trained better since the race at Saratoga, but that's how these things happen sometimes.
Despite reports to the contrary, Kevin is in the squad for tomorrow. We thought he was suffering from a hernia but it is tendon damage. That is not as bad as we thought although he still cannot train during the week. He will get a rest and possibly an operation if it is needed later.
The biggest thing was probably my Achilles (tendon). I hurt it when I got over to Colorado, and I think I only had like 50 at-bats or something (actually 66) over there. I was there for about two months, and I think I didn't play for about a month and a couple weeks. It was one of those things where you couldn't really do too much about it. You've just got to take care of it so it doesn't hurt the rest of your career.
After he looked at the tendon, he made a decision that Correll would not heal well enough to play this season without further surgery. He just thinks it was a freak thing. (Buckhalter) just hit that knee right on the same spot.
It might have something to do with his shoes, I don't know. It just didn't feel good. He's an important guy to our team. If his Achilles' tendon is swollen and not feeling right, I'm not going to put him out there. Not on that surface (the baseball infield at Dolphins Stadium). Play the percentages and get him right.
It happened a couple of days ago and it's gotten worse. I don't know how, but it doesn't take much to aggravate it. It's the size of a large cantaloupe. I think I strained the tendon in the back where the calf connects.
All indications from the MRI are that it's nothing serious. You've got to let it calm down. He had that tendon problem last September, and of course it healed. It just flared up on him. ... In about a couple weeks, it'll calm down. So it's nothing major.
Manager Alan Trammell wouldn't put a timetable on when Guillen might return to the lineup. There's still some soreness in the tendon, ... Let's see how he reacts to baseball activities today and go from there.
I thought it might be my Achilles' tendon, ... And when I got to the bench the trainers right away thought it was my Achilles'. I was worried there for a bit. I hear that's how a lot of Achilles' injuries happen, by just taking a step. I thought it was over.
At least there's a positive in that he's not going to have any sort of major reconstruction done on the tendon or anything torn up in there. It's good bad news.
I'll be back, ... I didn't rupture the tendon nearly as bad as last time.
He blew his tendon in a race. We will probably give him away.
Yesterday he felt a little twinge in his knee. It was pretty well localized to the bottom end of his kneecap, in the patellar tendon. We're going to reevaluate him in 10 days, two weeks, and hopefully he'll be ready to go by then.