Quotes About Recovery

It was especially tough following my shoulder injury. I was able to play again after three months out, but it wasn't the same Boateng. I had the feeling I was in another body.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.

I was always taught coming back from injuries the last thing you want to do is have a mental game going on with yourself and psyching yourself out and you just start thinking about the injury.

The initial thought is like, 'Damn. Most guys used to retire after the Achilles injury.' Nobody really but Dominique Wilkins has come back to be the same person as he used to be or better; but now, more and more guys come back and they're healthy.

The only semi serious injury I have had was when I strained my MCL. But I'm always beat up in some form or another.

I had that small injury on my ankle, but I know that I am not playing like I used to play and like I have to play. So I have to keep working and try to play much better.

Any time somebody goes through a major injury you feel for him and also what I've been through, I know firsthand what it's like.

I had obviously a freak injury right when I got there and there's a lot of things that were kind of out of my control when I was in Boston.

When an injury robs a player of his ability to train the way he's accustomed to, there is nearly always an alternative.

I've seen how quickly a season can be over from injury.

I never thought I'd ever get stabbed in my life. The fact that it happened twice within, like, a two-month period is pretty insane.

When you buy a company that's been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in place, but that's the end of the glory for three to five years, grinding it out one day after the other.

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to catch up on the years that I lost.

Ive got three brothers and a sister; everybody played an instrument. When I was at Manchester United and I broke my leg in 1992, I took up the sax. I play it on The Establishments album.

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

That is the thing that I was scared of - that I would know intellectually that there's something to glean out of life, but that I would be so broken that I wouldn't care.

I think playing a lot every three or four days is the best thing. The best training is the games; there is no training in the week that you can compare the intensity, fatigue, and everything that you have in a match.

I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, just to get away from the scrutiny and intensity of everything. I love it but it was too much for me.