ACL Injury Trivia: Famous ACL Injuries in Sports

An ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) injury can often spell the end of a career for some athletes. Hearing the famous "pop" of the ACL normally means the end of the season and the beginning of a long journey to recovery. However, an end of the season certainly doesn't mean the end of a career for these nine athletes. Here at MMAR Medical, we put together a quick trivia quiz of famous ACL injuries in sports. We brought together soccer knee injuries, football players with ACL injuries and basketball players who were also affected by tearing their ACL in our trivia.

See if you can guess these famous athletes' ACL injuries before you check the answers under the pictures.

NFL

1. Which Minnesota Vikings player broke the all-time record for rushing yards in a season in the NFL a year after he tore his ACL?

2. How many yards did Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles rush in the 2012 NFL season – just a year after he tore his ACL?

3. Which Patriots player, in the same year he tore his ACL, finished the 2010 season with 86 receptions for 848 yards and seven touchdowns in his total 15 games played?

NBA

1. How many months did it take Kendrick Perkins to return to basketball after rehabbing his ACL tear?

2. Which Indiana Pacers player played all 82 games the year after he tore his ACL?

3. Baron Davis was the number ____ pick in the 1999 NBA draft after he tore his ACL in that same year.

Soccer

1. After he was out for 12 months due to a torn ACL, which soccer player holds several records for Juventus, including the club’s top scorer and the club's most appearances?

2. In 2000, this soccer player missed the last two months of the season but still came out with plenty of awards, including top assist maker in the League, FWA footballer of the year and Arsenal's player of the season.

3. The following season after Michael Owen tore his ACL in the 2006 World Cup, he broke Gary Lineker's record for most ________________________ for England.

Answers

NFL

1. Adrian Peterson

2. 1,509 yards

3. Wes Welker

NBA

1. 6 months

2. Al Harrington

3. Third pick

Soccer

1. Alessandro Del Piero

2. Most Goals in Competitive Internationals

3. Third pick

ACL injuries are painful and disruptive, but they don’t always have to mean ending your career. Use these nine athletes as inspiration for your recovery period and you’ll be back on the field or the court in no time. For more information on ACL injuries and more visit our website MMAR Medical.

Top 20 Inspirational Sports Quotes

Everyone needs some inspiration once in a while, and athletes are never short on words about determination and perseverance. These are the best inspirational sports quotes from athletes and coaches who have been champions. We hope they encourage you to stick through a tough physical therapy session, commit that extra hour to practicing your sport or inspire you play harder.

20. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." – Babe Ruth

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19. "If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do." - Michael Phelps

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18. "Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." – Jackie Robinson

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17. "Set your goals high and don't stop till you get there." – Bo Jackson

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16. "There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results." – Nick Saban

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15. "If you don't practice, you don't deserve to win." – Andre Agassi

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14. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." – Pele

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13. "I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice." – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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12. "There are only two options regarding commitment: you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between." – Pat Riley

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11. "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

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10. "Always be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class and be humble." – John Madden

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9. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." – Lou Holtz

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8. "Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the 'me' for the 'we.'" – Phil Jackson

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7. "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." – Muhammad Ali

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6. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." – Wayne Gretzky

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5. "Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practices and the coaches who have pushed you is the little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back. Play for her." – Mia Hamm

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4. "Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." – Dan Gable

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3. "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." – Michael Jordan

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2. "The game ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi Berra

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1. "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

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