Quotes About Recovery

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.

Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the 'you only live once' mentality doesn't really work because you can only do that for so often before you're self-destructive.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

When you're mentally ill, sometimes you're so self-involved that you forget how much you're hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don't understand that you've got to get help.

I played football at uni right up until I broke my leg. This girl slide-tackled me, studs up and broke it on impact. I was in my fourth year and mentally it made such a difference having that taken away from me when I needed it.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

Mentally, I'm really strong, but for maybe the first time in my life, I cried about my career because I thought it was over. When you've been out for a year, and you think it's over, you think completely differently after that. I was just looking on TV, and I wasn't able to train, and in the meantime, I had a son.

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

I was never really healthy mentally.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

I was a mess my freshman year of college. I still had so much pain in my heart.

Obviously you don't want to mess with an Achilles. That is for sure.

When I was declared bankrupt it felt like I was in a financial mess I would never get out of.

I don't deal with heartbreaks well; I become a complete mess.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

Even after I retired I'd get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it's another message and I'll just ignore it, but these things shouldn't be acceptable. They aren't acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

I messed up my eyes. It's funny, I was training and we thought I had a mild concussion. But you know, I was out in Albuquerque and I would train from 9:30 to 11:00 and then I would rest all day long until 5:00 and I'd be playing on my phone, so I was playing on my phone and it scrambled my fore-vision.