Quotes About Recovery

In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically.

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.

I went to Brazil to learn more about my body and my physique: what to do before training, during training, after training, even after the match.

Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

In 2012, we had just won the league with City, and I was really high on confidence going into the Euros when I picked up an injury, which meant I couldn't go.

Look at Willis McGahee. Perfect example. Totally shredded knee. Comes back and gets picked in the first round. It's pretty hard to have a career-ender, unless I have a neck thing. But either way, I know I'm insured.

The B.J. Penn fight was the first one where I ever took damage. I got caught coming in. I got hit hard and I never recovered. He picked me apart the rest of the fight. After that, I still didn't take any damage until I fought Martin Kampmann.

Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.

After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

I sleep 14 hours a day. That helps me get the energy you see on the pitch.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.