Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware has insisted that his body feels "great" despite suffering a number of injuries last season.
Ware missed the first three games of the campaign with a quadriceps strain before going on to suffer a recurrence of that injury, a stinger and a back problem over the rest of the season.
The seven-time Pro Bowler has also been suffering from an elbow injury for the past two years on which he will now undergo surgery, but he insists that none of his problems is holding him back.
"Rest helped it. I'm getting my work in. I'm pushing up 315, 405 [pounds] and I'm doing everything, running. My body feels great," Ware is quoted as saying by ESPN.
"Straight up, it feels really, really good. My quad, I can do all of that. I can do everything. Nothing is inhibiting me. If I had to go into the season now, I feel better than I did going into the season with the shoulder [surgery].
"Now I feel like once we get the elbow cleaned up and fix the nerve deal, it's, 'Let's roll.'"
Ware's absence last year was the first time that he had missed a game since joining the league in 2005, and he subsequently went on to record a career-low six sacks for the season.
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