UFC welterweight Patrick Cote recently appeared on MMAjunkie Radio and revealed that in 12 years a professional fighter, he has had 11 knee surgeries, with his ACL, MCL, and meniscus worked on at various points.

Fans may remember Cote tearing his ACL in the middle of a fight with Anderson Silva, back in 2008. Cote didn’t fight for the next 18 months.

I would have preferred he knock me out cold rather than losing like that, said Cote, as transcribed by Steven Marrocco for MMAJunkie. I was giving him a fight. I’m not saying that I was winning, but I was still there, and I’m a puncher. I have a chance in every round to win the fight if I connect in the right spot.

If I think about my career, that’s the only thing I would do again. And not because it was a title fight, but because of the way it ended.

I have a 70-year-old’s knees right now. It’s a tough sport, man.

Cote fights Stephen Thompson at UFC 178 on Sept. 27 in Las Vegas, live on PPV.