Quotes About Recovery

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

Certain players need twice the recovery time of others because they run much more - not because they put in more effort but because they're playing different positions.

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

I understand the pain of withdrawal, too. I wouldn't want that on anybody.

I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Right now, it's everywhere I want to be.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

Being in rehab it's no fun. But afterwards it's like the best thing ever. I didn't want to leave.

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

It hurts because you want to try to get out there and help the team win, and I wasn't able to do that. Injuries are part of the game, but I'm over that now, hopefully.

The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.