Quotes About Recovery

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

My boyfriend dumped me because I let myself go. And not just with my clothing, in every facet of life.

Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I've certainly gone through my fair share of anxiety and depression.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

I had a 180-degree tear around my shoulder, my AC joint needed stabilising and a tear in my rotator cuff.

Sixteen, 17 games in a season is a lot of wear and tear on the body, especially for guys who don't come out when they're playing.

The idea behind resistance training is that you're basically tearing something and creating a microtrauma in the muscle. When the muscle recovers, it's going to recover stronger and denser than it was before.