Quotes About Recovery

I trusted in God to return to football. I have worked very hard every day to achieve it, and thank God, my work paid off, being able to come back normally, scoring goals.

I came to understand that Nic on drugs was not the Nic I knew and trusted. Nic on drugs was somebody else. We were afraid of him.

If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

When I'm healthy, I can still pitch. I know I can still pitch at that level and get the results that I want.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.