Quotes About Recovery

I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

I broke my neck.

When I was at IMPACT and X Division Champion, my neck wasn't able to handle the workload and after losing the belt to Brian Cage in a match I just realized my neck just can't handle this anymore.

Going from the top 'heel' in the industry, taking some time away to heal my neck and allow the people to miss me and understand what it was they had with me and just how special I am, allowed me to come back.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

When a player gets injured, all negative thoughts come in. Then you bump into people who have had that problem and they start telling you about how difficult it is and that doesn't help.

I had gone from being married with a kid, two cars, garage, nice house in a nice neighborhood to all of it gone.

Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our neighborhoods and our culture, I feel a responsibility to do something. I can see what's wrong with the system - that we have to recognize mental illness as we do cancer or broken bones - and how we need to make it better.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

There was a time when I was 23 years old that I thought my career was over because I couldn't move my hand. It turned out it was just a pinched nerve.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

I was in the middle of my match and I was coming to the net and all I remember was hearing this loud pop and everything was slow after that. I just remember trying to take a step and my leg just not being able to hold me and I went down.

We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back.

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.