Quotes About Recovery

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

My knees have just gotten to the point where they just get beat up.

I've had a lot of problems with my arms, with my knees.

I went through three surgeries on my hip and knees.

Glasgow - don't get me wrong, I love Glasgow, but in the '60s and '70s the city was on its knees. It was kind of bankrupt. It was pretty monochrome.

I thought I had a chest infection and went to the doctor - five days later I was under the knife. It came completely out of the blue. My arteries were 95% blocked.

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

The natural instinct when you get concussed, when you get knocked out, as soon as you come up is to get up and fight and keep going.

To be honest with you, getting knocked out isn't that bad. It's not what everybody makes it out to be.

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.

We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

Gratitude for the many blessings that recovery has brought even further heightens our enthusiasm for living.

One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it." I was actually terrified that I already meant it. A guy might just be a keeper who hears your cry for help in his head. And comes into a den of thieves to get you out. And then holds your hair while you throw up for ten minutes.

Love can't cure a broken heart, but it can hold the two sides together while they heal.

Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It's as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world's all bright and shiny! Too bad you're not.