31.   He had four knee operations in five years.

32.   He has had six knee operations involving both legs, four of them major.

33.   He is coming off his second reconstructive knee operation in two seasons.

34.   He also had three knee operations and ankle surgery.

35.   He later underwent two knee operations and played only sparingly over the last three years before working his way into form just in time for the World Cup.

36.   He had led the National Football League in rushing after a serious knee operation the previous season.

37.   He needed not one, but two knee operations, and at times, it took both his parents to pry him from a chair.

38.   He has endured four knee operations, elbow surgery, forearm surgery, debilitating back problems and four sinus operations.

39.   He swam with a school of great white sharks and allowed TV cameras to film his knee replacement operation.

40.   He was told by his coach at the University of Idaho in his junior year after five knee operations.