Quotes About Recovery

After my accident, I never worried about how I looked.

When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.

During the offseason, when you don't have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress - whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you're doing at the time.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

Obviously, when I had the scare with the blood clots, I mean, that's the kind of thing that you don't want to have happen, obviously, and you worry about what it means for the rest of your career.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

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After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.

I think my thoughts were of pure fear in those seconds after the collision. A clash of heads is pretty common in football but the sheer impact of it was worrying, because it was in this temple area. It seems to be a softer part of the head. I remember being on the ground. It really did feel like a bomb had exploded in my head. It was so painful.

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.

I've fractured my skull twice, damaged a kidney, snapped a cruciate ligament in my knee, and broken all manner of bones, including my jaw. And I count myself very lucky it hasn't been worse!

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

What's funny about me is that when I try and relax, and my body is in a fatigued or - you know, my muscles aren't feeling that great, I feel I only get worse. But when I go work out and do the things that are productive to helping off-set the weak muscles or hurt muscles, I feel like I can become a lot better after that.

Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?