Quotes About Recovery

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I'm probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I'm here, and I'm living.

I did the long jump and hurt my foot. It was a stress fracture in the left foot, which even now, 12 years on, is the bane of my life.

I broke my foot in college.

The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day.

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

I don't want to be a shell of my former self.

I want to have my own neurophysiological clinic, combining my love of sport with my knowledge of physio that can benefit people and help them be rehabilitated to close to their former selves.

Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.

I have a hernia scar from when I was a kid. I had a hernia when I was like in fourth grade.

I fractured my left foot.

I fractured my hand while shooting for 'Bullet Raja,' while we were shooting in Nashik.

Anderson Silva kind of took the best part of Rich Franklin out of his soul, and he was never the same again.

When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

I don't mind people talking to me as they are only ever nice. Although I had one frightening experience when I had a stalker who thought he was the son of God and thought I was, too.

I love to play the game of basketball so to sit there and not be able to play, it gets kind of frustrating.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

When I travel I have a full-time physio that I pay for myself. He also handles strength and conditioning.

Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.