Quotes About Recovery

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

I know sometimes when you get injured, a lot of the time you're in the training room. But getting out there on the court - if you're on the sideline cheering them on or even at practice, you've just gotta talk and communicate in that way.

To be honest I think watching from the sidelines is one of the most difficult things.

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

I'm happy to say that I am in remission. That R word is something critically important to cancer patients, especially in a disease like myeloma. But I never lose sight of the fact that there is another R word called relapse.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

I lost sight in my left eye.

One of Obama's first major acts as president was to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and some of the money in that bill went to Saft.

In my first season after Mancini signed me, I was injured a lot, but when I was fit, he did play me.

When I'm thanked by patients who recover, I truly feel the significance of our research.

Any time you have significant injury, it is about the perspective, how you attack it.

So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.

In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a half million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

I was injured by an enemy hand grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. I spent three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center... And through that three years, I was forced to search for the silver linings during the long dark and painful nights and days in the hospital.

I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built.

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.