diff --git a/website/content/docs/connect/config-entries/service-router.mdx b/website/content/docs/connect/config-entries/service-router.mdx
index c0e26a7e2d..1a12e3cdf9 100644
--- a/website/content/docs/connect/config-entries/service-router.mdx
+++ b/website/content/docs/connect/config-entries/service-router.mdx
@@ -701,8 +701,8 @@ spec:
       name: 'NumRetries',
       type: 'int: 1',
       description: {
-        hcl: 'The number of times to retry the request when a retryable result occurs. This cannot be set to 0 so if you wish to disable retries, unset all other retry settings (`RetryOnConnectFailure`, `RetryOn`, `RetryOnStatusCodes`)',
-        yaml: 'The number of times to retry the request when a retryable result occurs. This cannot be set to 0 so if you wish to disable retries, unset all other retry settings (`retryOnConnectFailure`, `retryOn`, `retryOnStatusCodes`)',
+        hcl: 'The number of times to retry the request when a retryable result occurs. You cannot set the value to `0`. To disable retries, unset all other retry settings (`RetryOnConnectFailure`, `RetryOn`, `RetryOnStatusCodes`)',
+        yaml: 'The number of times to retry the request when a retryable result occurs. You cannot set the value to `0`. To disable retries, unset all other retry settings (`retryOnConnectFailure`, `retryOn`, `retryOnStatusCodes`)',
       }
     },
     {